Research Explorer

Project

High Tide – Low Tide. Bruges’ late-medieval harbour system as a maritime cultural landscape.
Code
01CD7923
Duration
01 November 2023 → 29 February 2024
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Coastal geography
    • Geomorphology and landscape evolution
    • Quaternary environments
    • Palaeo-ecology
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Geoarchaeology
Keywords
geoarchaeology maritime cultural landscape Zwin connectivity Bruges late medieval commodity diaspora communities human-nature interactions material culture
 
Project description
 

The role of Bruges as a late medieval port and "maritime-cultural landscape" is inextricably linked to the dynamic interaction between nature and man via the Zwin tidal channel. The connection within the local and with the global trade network, the transactions in trade goods and the impact of foreigners residing in the region on material culture, will be the subject of this interdisciplinary research.