4,164 search results for “history of the middle echt” in the Public website
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The Modern Devotion. Spirituality and Culture from the Late Middle Ages onward
The Modern Devotion: pone of the most influential religious initiatives in the late medieval Low Countries.
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The Routledge Handbook of Maritime Trade around Europe 1300-1600
This book explores the links between maritime trading networks around Europe, from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic to the North and Baltic Seas.
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Femme Gaastra
Faculty of Humanities
f.s.gaastra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Wim Boot
Faculty of Humanities
w.j.boot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Ben Schoenmaker
Faculty of Humanities
b.schoenmaker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Beyond the city wall: history of Batavia's hinterland
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, the city of Batavia was supplied with produce by its hinterland, known as the Ommelanden. Bondan Kanumoyoso studied the history of the various ethnic groups that populated this area and in doing so has shed light on the structure of modern-day Indonesian society.…
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Human nature and governance: soulcraft and statecraft in eleventh century China
On the 2nd of September Jiyan Qiao successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation
Knowledge and culture subproject 3:
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1611
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Anatomical Collections as Public History
The third project, worked on by dr. Rina Knoeff, is a synthesising project directed at studying the Leiden anatomical collections as important parts of ‘public history’. It will use the results of the other projects in order to analyse anatomical collections (their focus, significant silences, audiences,…
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
l.milevski@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1288
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
t.w.m.de.boer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.
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The Resistance of the World
This project will construct an inventory of possible conceptions of the resistance of the world to scientists’ claims and theories.
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3903
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Mapping historical marine life: Johannes Müller is researching the history of ecosystems
The underwater world around present-day Indonesia has changed greatly in recent centuries as a result of human activity. University lecturer Johannes Müller has been awarded an NWO XS grant to map the history of the Indonesian ecosystems.
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The Modern Arabic Book: Design as Agent of Cultural Progress
Huda Abi-Fares defended her thesis on 10 January 2017.
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Research Assessment 2018
To safeguard the quality of research within Leiden University, a committee of external experts evaluates the University’s institutes once every six years according to the Standard Evaluation Protocol which is drawn up by the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Royal Netherlands…
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Nationalism: A World History
A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present.
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Scholarly Dogmatism: A Rhetorical History, 1800-2000
This project traces how, why, and under what circumstances scholars invoked the trope of “dogmatism,” especially in controversies. Relevant controversies from various fields, periods, and countries will be subjected to in-depth rhetorical analysis.
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Evening of the Middle Eastern Collections & Middle Eastern Library
Arts and culture
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Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635
Mining the unusually rich diaries, memoirs, and poems written by Netherlandish Catholics, Judith Pollmann explores how Catholic believers experienced religious and political turmoil in the generations between Erasmus and Rubens.
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Banner exhibition graphic works of Harry van Kruiningen about the Epic of Gilgamesh
The Epic of Gilgamesh was a lifelong inspiration to artist Harry van Kruiningen. This tale from Mesopotamia about the adventures of Gilgamesh, the legendary king of Uruk, and his friend Enkidu is one of the oldest surviving epics in world literature. Despite its almost 4,000 year age, it still captures…
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Worlds full of signs: ancient Greek divination in context
This monograph by dr. Kim Beerden compares Greek divination to divinatory practices in Neo-Assyrian Mesopotamia and Republican Rome.
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
p.j.j.meel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2654
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Support for doctoral research on the history of Zoroastrianism
Last year, LUCSoR welcomed two new Ph.D. students from Iran: Kiyan Foroutan from Ahvaz and Amir Ardalan Emami from Tehran. Kiyan works on a project on the role of the family in medieval and early modern Zoroastrianism in India and Iran (15th-18th centuries). Ardalan works on a much earlier period, the…
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Cultural Production
This research network aims to create a shared platform for debate and dialogue on the broader theme of cultural production and exchange across different area specializations and historical periods.
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Religion Explored: Origin, Function and Meaning
How do ideas concerning the academic study of religion relate to the socio-cultural and political context in which they are developed?
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025
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Scholarly temptations: self-discipline and desire in Victorian Britain.
How did British scholars and scientists in the period of discipline formation envision, experience and resist scholarly temptations?
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.oostindie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Roundtable on premodern Yemeni history
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Colonial and Global History (research) (MA)
The Colonial and Global History (research) programme at Leiden University offers the most in-depth and comprehensive programme of European expansion and globalisation currently available in Europe.
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Maps That Made History: 1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps
1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps.
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Erik-jan Zurcher
Faculty of Humanities
e.j.zurcher@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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The recording industry and ‘regional’ culture in Indonesia : the case of Minangkabau
This book explores chronologically, for the first time, the representation and redefinition of Indonesia’s regional cultures through recording media, from the introduction of the gramophone record through the current video compact disc (VCD) era, taking as case study the Minangkabau ethnic group.
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
t.mostert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1307
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
m.c.r.schute@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty of Humanities
e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4692
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History and International Studies 1900-Present
The research programme History and International Studies 1900-Present addresses the interconnections and interdependence of contemporary global political, economic and cultural affairs from a multidisciplinary perspective rooted in the humanities.
- Teaching History and Civics (MA)
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Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions.
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Centre for Islamic Thought and History
Welcome to the Leiden University Centre for Islamic Thought and History. The initiatives and projects undertaken here are under the auspices of the Leiden University Centre for Intercultural Philosophy. As a centre, we aim to promote the study of Arabic and Islamic thought and history, in all its different…
- Europaeum Programme European History and Civilisation (MA)
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Earliest Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections in Leiden Now Available in Open Access
Several of the most important manuscript collections in the Leiden University Libraries (UBL) Special Collections, comprising 443 extremely rare and often unique volumes, have been made available in Open Access via Digital Collections. The available manuscript collections include the private collections…
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Launch Middle Ages for Educators (MAFE)
Princeton University has officially launched its website, MAFE: Middle Ages for Educators. MAFE is aimed at university and secondary students and educators and, more broadly, at anyone who is interested in studying, teaching, or learning more about Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar