Lies Verbaere

Lies Verbaere
University of Pavia | UNIPV · Department of Humanities

PhD Candidate

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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
Arts and Humanities
Cultural Studies
Literature Studies
Literary Criticism
Poetics
Narratology
Mythology
Renaissance Literature
Medieval Literature
Renaissance
Additional affiliations
January 2022 - March 2023
Ghent University
Ghent University
  • Department of Literary Studies
  • Gent, Belgium
Position
  • PhD Student
Description
  • PhD in Literary Studies • Joint PhD with the University of Pavia
Education
October 2016 - September 2018
Ghent University
Ghent University
Field of study
  • Historical Linguistics and Literature
October 2011 - September 2016
Ghent University
Ghent University
Field of study
  • History

Publications

Publications (3)
Solimano, l’arte pagana del comando nella ‘Gerusalemme liberata’ di Torquato Tasso e la ‘Historia belli sacri’ di Guglielmo di Tiro
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  • Jan 2020
The present article discusses Torquato Tasso’s (1544-1595) representation of leadership in the “Gerusalemme liberata” (1581), which recounts the Christian army’s conquest of Jerusalem during the First Crusade (1095-1099). More specifically, this article focuses on pagan leadership, taking into account the Renaissance idea about the perfect prince a...
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Turks, Renaissance Image of
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  • May 2019
This entry offers an overview of Europe’s image of the Turks during the Renaissance. Various interactions, from military conflict to peaceful contact, engendered numerous writings about the Turks. After the Fall of Constantinople (1453), Europeans predominantly called for a crusade until a balance of power was established. Interest in Oriental char...
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Projects

Project (1)
“Friend” or “Infernal Monster”? Comic and Tragic Representations of the Turk and the Self in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Theatre
Project
This project aims at examining the image of the Muslim-‘other’ and the ‘self’ in Venetian drama through the investigation of selected Venetian Renaissance plays. Strangely, Italians produced more ‘Turkish’ comedies than violent tragedies. Combining history, rhetoric and literature, this study will examine relevant primary sources (including paratexts, literary sources and treatises) and reasons for the promotion or censorship of plays.
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