MRG keywords (2) : Archaeology; History
Address:
Blijde Inkomststraat 21 box 3307
3000 Leuven
Belgium | | Type: Scientific
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1 Director: Head of the department 2 Marine scientist: Works in this research group and acts as (co-)author in at least one marine publication in the last 5 years. 3 Specialized personnel: Provides administrative or technical support to marine scientific research.
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| Abstract: | Research within the History department is conducted in five research groups:
- Ancient history: history, culture, literature and philosophy of Graeco-Roman Antiquity and its impact on Western European cultural history;
- Medieval history: social, political, economic and religious history of medieval Europe (500-1500);
- Early modern history: worldwide Habsburg monarchies and how cultural, political and religious renewal came about; global history with a focus on Chinese, Asian, and Spanish American history;
- Cultural history since 1750: history of knowledge and science, historiography and historical culture, cultural infrastructure and cultural transfers;
- Modernity and society 1800-2000: focus on agency and agenda-setting as well as the bottom-up processes which brought about new organised forms of trans- and international interaction in the last 200 years.
The marine research includes: transpacific trade and exchange, the transoceanic transfer of (medicinal, botanical, geographical, navigational, shipbuilding) knowledge, diseases, maritime maps and rutters, the reconstruction of early modern transpacific sea routes, influences of maritime environmental and climate issues on early modern seafaring, piracy, shipboard diets and maritime medicine, maritime archaeology and the investigation of Manila galleon wrecks, and an assessment of two 20th century ship wrecks in the North Sea. The geographic focus of Schottenhammer's team lies in Asia, the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean region as well as the Spanish American coast. Prof. Schottenhammer herself also covers the periods of Asian early medieval and medieval maritime research, including shipwreck archaeology. |
| Publications (5) | Top | Persons | ( 4 peer reviewed ) split up filter Schottenhammer, A. (2021). Consolidating southeast Asia and the meaning of force in history: Pax Ming and the case of Chen Zuyi (sic). China and Asia: A Journal in Historical Studies 3(1): 130-168. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589465X-030105, more- Schottenhammer, A. (2020). "Peruvian balsam": an example of transoceanic transfer of medicinal knowledge. J. Ethnobiol. Ethnomed. 16(1): 69. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1186/s13002-020-00407-y, more
- Schottenhammer, A. (2020). East Asia’s other new world, China and the viceroyalty of Peru: a neglected aspect of early modern maritime history. Mediev. Hist. J. 23(2): 181-239. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097194581989589, more
- Dewilde, B.; Dumolyn, J.; Lambert, B.; Vannieuwenhuyze, B. (2018). "So one would notice the good navigability": economic decline and the cartographic conception of urban space in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Bruges. Urban History 45(1): 2-25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963926816000742, more
- Moies, J. (2020). Voorbij de golven: Een assessment van twee 20e-eeuwse scheepswrakken in de Noordzee m.b.v. multibeam. MSc Thesis. KU Leuven, Faculteit Letteren: Leuven. 53 pp., more
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