1,042 search results for “medieval literature” in the Public website
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The use of animal manure by prehistoric and early medieval farmers
Did early farmers deliberately use animal manure on their fields?
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Rural riches and royal rags
This book is a celebration of the work of Professor Frans Theuws and was published in conjunction with the symposium held at the University of Leiden on June 29, 2018.
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Unearthing Literature: The Case of Hussein Barghouti
Haneen Omari defended her thesis on 29 October 2019
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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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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
o.van.marion@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2128
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A princess’s psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript in Alkmaar book bindings
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: a number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century. The original manuscript may have belonged to a princess who fled England after the Norman Conquest.
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Word: The Emergence of War Fiction in Persian Post-Revolutionary Literature
This thesis seeks to examine the emergence of Persian novels and short stories during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988).
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Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries
Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature.
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The Transformation of the Roman World
One of the three long-term research interests of our group concerns the Transformation of the Roman World (c AD 450-900).
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Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Digital Humanities Approach with A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke
This special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik (Brill, 2021) brings together articles that explore new digital ways of analyzing and annotating Old English vocabulary.
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Robert Stein
Faculty of Humanities
r.stein@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2712
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The Idea of Italian Beauty in Literature and Language
Beauty is a central concept in the Italian cultural imagination throughout its history and in virtually all its manifestations. It particularly permeates the domains that have governed the construction of Italian identity: literature and language.
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Questions of Justice in Law, Literature and the Arts
Questions of justice are not only the concern of legal professionals, politicians and activists, they also permeate culture at large. Literature, Cinema, Music and Artworks often revolve around questions about rights, justice and fairness, raising a wide range of issues, such as: how do we understand…
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Literary Studies: Literature and Society. Europe and Beyond
Are you thinking about studying Literature and Society. Europe and Beyond? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Erik Kwakkel: the 'Sherlock Holmes' of medieval manuscripts
What can a doodle tell us about the person who drew it? Erik Kwakkel is a Dutch book historian at Leiden University who searches for the secret meanings of doodles and scribbles in medieval manuscripts. He talks to BBC World Service about his passion for books.
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Autumn School in Medieval Languages and Culture 2021
In close collaboration with the Center for Medieval Studies (Fordham), Centre for Medieval literature (Odense and York) and Centre for Medieval Studies (York), the University of Ghent organizes an Autumn School for PhD- and MA-students in Medieval Studies (18-22 October 2021). It will be organized in…
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Skin Deep? Reading the Surfaces of the Body in Ancient Greek Literature and Science
The skin has recently gained attention within body studies for its many specific cultural and social associations, in addition to its biology. This project aims to examine the different layers of meaning and the functions invested in the skin in ancient Greece: how did ancient Greek literary and medical…
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Power and Persuasion. Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans
The transformation of the myriad of medieval kingdoms, principalities, local lordships, city-‘states’ and peasant ‘republics’ into ‘modern’ states, claiming some measure of sovereignty, remains one of the core themes of European history, because it gets down to the very root of the (idea on the) Europe…
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Riches Beyond the Horizon
Long-distance Trade in Early Medieval Landscapes (ca. 6th-12th centuries)
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08: Animals (Un)tamed: Human-Animal Encounters in Science, Art, and Literature
The eighth issue of the JLGC explores the diverse and interdisciplinary research on our multifaceted relationship with animals which is currently taking place, re-examining the relationship between humans and animals, and the definitions involved.
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Language, law and loanwords in early medieval Gaul: language contact and studies in Gallo-Romance phonology
On October 9th, Peter Alexander Kerkhof succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Peter Alexander on this great result.
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Gastronomical archaeology in new book Medieval MasterChef
The archaeology of food is in all sorts of ways ‘hot’. To illustrate this, recently the book Medieval MasterChef was published, focusing on cuisine and foodways in the Mediterranean and north-western Europe during Medieval and Post-Medieval times.
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Medieval Studies and Early Modern Studies: New options for the Master’s programme in Leiden
Leiden University is home to over a hundred specialists studying the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. From 2017-2018 onwards, they will join forces to offer two new options for specialisation within existing MA programmes: Medieval Studies and Early Modern Studies.
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Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
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Ronald Kon
Faculty of Humanities
r.e.kon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
t.van.wanrooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2626
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
o.j.praamstra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Erik Kwakkel confesses his love of Medieval books
As Scaliger professor, Erik Kwakkel is responsible for the academic context of the complete Special Collections of the Leiden University Library. His inaugural lecture on 15 May will focus mainly on the section closest to his heart: Medieval books.
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New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship? Want to learn more? Then sign up for the new MOOC…
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‚Flüchtlingskrise‘ in Kunst und Literatur // Taking Positions on the ‘Refugee Crisis’: Critical Responses in Art and Literature
The recent rise in global migration movements and the simultaneous attempts to prevent migrations to the Global North in general and Europe in particular have produced numerous images and narratives that try to record and convey these events and their actors.
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Medieval waste matter found in Leiden University Library
Erik Kwakkel, researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, has found an extraordinary manuscript in the University Library’s extensive collection of medieval books. The book in question dates back to the first half of the eleventh century and is made entirely out of waste left over from the production of…
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
c.v.weeda@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2718
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Medieval Cat Paw Manuscript
Cat Paw Tweet Goes Viral
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KB Medieval Memes Generator
The KB has launched a meme generator containing medieval imagery.
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Medieval Studies Day 2021
The registration for the Medieval Studies Day on 17 December 2021 is now open.
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Digital Medieval Webinar Repository
The Digital Medievalist has recently created a curated Zenodo community, called the Digital Medieval Webinar Repository (DMWR) to house recorded presentations on medieval topics.
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International Medieval Meeting (Lleida)
Submit your paper, session or business proposal for the International Medieval Meeting in Lleida until 31 March 2023.
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Egbert Bos
Faculty of Humanities
e.p.bos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2029
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Save-the-date Medieval Studies' Day
On 4 November 2022, the University of Amsterdam will organize the Medieval Studies' Day! More information coming soon.
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
w.j.j.schipper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Medieval Studies Day 2021
On 17 December 2021 the Medieval Studies Day will take place in Amsterdam. Keep this date free! More information will follow soon.
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CfP Medieval accountability
On 2-3 June 2023, the University of Bucharest organizes the conference 'Medieval accountability: normativity, numeracy, and rhetoric from the institutional to the domestic sphere'. Proposals of circa 300 words outlining the source material, methodology, and anticipated findings should be emailed to…
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Joe Fortin
Faculty of Humanities
j.l.fortin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Claudia Bouteligier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
c.bouteligier@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7628
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Illness and Literature in the Low Countries. From the Middle Ages until the 21th Century
From as early as classical antiquity there has been an interplay between literature and medicine.
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Multilevel governance and responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic literature review
In this article, the authors summarise the literature on the effects of multilevel governance on governments’ policy responses to Covid-19.
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Medieval Greek Summer Session (Athens)
The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens announces the summer session focused on the study of Medieval Greek, from June 26 to July 27, 2023. The Library invites applications for a month-long Summer Session for Medieval Greek at the Intermediate to Advanced Level. The…
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CfP Medieval Studies' Day 2022
The theme of the Research School for Medieval Studies' Medieval Studies' Day 2022 (UvA, Amsterdam, 4 November 2022) is Reflections. We welcome 15-minute papers on topics connected to the theme, with a medieval focus, in all humanities disciplines. We particularly invite proposals from PhD students and…
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Presenting Medieval Research - Registration deadline
The course "Presenting Medieval Research at International Conferences" is open for registration. The deadline for registration is 10 September 2020.