Game Over: Perfect marriage or wrong combination?

A look at historical representation in computer games

Almost 20 years ago I graduated as a historian from Ghent University, with this thesis.
After lying in a hidden corner on a forgotten hard drive for all those years, I decided to put my thesis online. I haven't been actively working on this research for some time, but whenever I look around now and then, I notice that very little research has been done in this field since I wrote my thesis.
By putting this thesis online, I hope to make research easier for future researchers.

Please keep in mind that this thesis is almost 20 years old, so the examples may be outdated. The underlying theory, however, still applies.

Note on the translation: this English version is a translation of the original Dutch thesis. Quotations that were given in Dutch in the original (translated there from English sources) have been rendered back into English and may differ slightly from the original wording. Titles of Dutch-language publications are left in Dutch, with an English gloss where helpful.

Enjoy reading!

Vincent-David de Clercq