Project

High Tide - Low Tide. Bruges’ late-medieval harbour system as a maritime cultural landscape.

Code

01G03319

Duration

01 January 2019 → 31 December 2023

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor-spokesperson

Wim De Clercq

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Landscape archaeology
- Landscape and ecological history
- Archaeological science
- Other history and archaeology not elsewhere classified
Social sciences
- Economic history

Keywords

Bruges Zwin late medieval maritime cultural landscape human-nature interactions connectivity commodity material culture diaspora communities geoarchaeology 15th Century Middle Ages Comparative Geographic and map based Quantitative Surveys Language and text analysis Field research Belgium Northern Europe Western Europe Southern Europe History Archaeology

Project description

Bruges’ role as late-medieval harbour and “maritime cultural landscape” is inextricably associated with the dynamic interaction between man and nature via the Zwin tidal inlet. The connectivity within the local and with the global trade networks, the transactions in commodities as well as the impact of residing foreigners on material culture will be the subject of this interdisciplinary study.