1,418 search results for “medieval dutch literature” in the Public website
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Knowledge gap due to exodus of Dutch MPs
With the exodus of departing parliamentarians, which seems to have gained momentum this summer, the loss of experience in parliament after the upcoming general election in the Netherlands will be considerable. A cause for concern according to Wim van De Camp, former CDA MP, and Wim Voermans, Professor…
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LACDR excels at the FIGON Dutch Medicine Days
The Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR) received no less than three awards during the Figon Dutch Medicine Days. Bas Goulooze won the PhD Prize for best PhD candidate, Natalia Ortiz Zacarías and Huub Sijben both received a poster prize. ‘Scientists must be able to communicate their research…
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Dutch ships built by North Koreans in Polish shipyards
North Korean labourers are still being forced to work in the European Union. According to researchers, including Professor of Korean Studies Remco Breuker at Leiden University, Dutch companies are buying ships from a dockyard that uses North Korean workers.
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Agriculture on Loess Soils West of the Rhine
Archaeobotanic research by prof. dr. C. Bakels and students on agriculture.
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Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900
This book published by Oxford University Press discusses religion and trade in world 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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The Walking Dead at Saqqara. The Making of a Cultural Geography
The main case study of the project is the cultural geography of Saqqara, the necropolis of the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis, and its development.
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Institute for History
The Leiden University Institute for History is responsible for the main part of the historical research carried out at Leiden University. The institute has a wide-ranging academic scope.
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LUCDH Affiliated Researchers
LUCDH is creating a community of LU scholars researching in Digital Humanities. A selection of their DH Projects are listed on this page. If you are an Affiliated member and would like your project listed here or would like to be an Affiliated member, please email us at lucdh@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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TERRA: TERraced landscape of RAmosch, Switzerland
This project investigates the well-preserved agricultural terraces of the Inn valley and the evolution of resource use in the inner Alps.
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Turks, texts and territory: Imperial ideology and cultural production in Central Eurasia
Turkic nomadic rulers established large empires in the Middle East and Asia between the 11th and 14th centuries. This project will explore the link between their political ideology and the production of art and literature, via the cultural heritage of five cities along the Silk Road: Kashgar, Samarkand,…
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Archaeology of the Mediterranean
In the master’s programme in Archaeology, you can follow courses on the archaeology of the Mediterranean, deepening your understanding of this fascinating region. From the many faces of ‘Hellenism’ to the early rise of the Roman Republic, to the voyages of European Crusaders in medieval times. The archaeology…
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Why Leiden University?
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Archaeology of Europe
In the master’s programme in Archaeology, you can follow courses on the archaeology of Europe, deepening your understanding of the continent’s long history.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students a world-class environment in which to reach their full potential.
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‘Today’s refugees are tomorrow’s Dutch citizens’
From virtual education to a friendly meeting place where refugees and Dutch students can get to know one another. Investing in refugees is in the interest of the whole of our society. This was the message of the students who opened the Academic Year of Leiden University on 5 September.
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Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA)
Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau
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International outreach project IAU100 awarded with Dutch Communication Award
The international astronomy outreach project IAU100 has won the first Communication Award by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The initiative was founded by Leiden team manager Pedro Russo and team members Jorge Rivero González, Bethany Downer, Lina Canas and Marieke Baan.
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Ilze Bot receives prestigious grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation
Just before Christmas, three talented scientists received good news: they are receiving a personal research grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation. Ilze Bot of the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research is one of those scientists. She will receive an Established Investigator grant of 650,000 euros.…
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Facing the enemy
How were war heroes and war criminals created, and how do these images relate to the historical context?
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Putting the Dutch children’s ombudsman on the map
In the last five years the Dutch children’s ombudsman has developed into a full-fledged supervisory body monitoring compliance with children’s rights in the Netherlands. A fuller engagement with its statutory tasks, greater involvement of children and strengthening the autonomous position of the children’s…
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Erik Kwakkel elected to Comité International de Paléographie Latine
On 18 June, 2015, Erik Kwakkel was elected to the Comité International de Paléographie Latine (CIPL), a scholarly committee that specialises in the study of the medieval book.
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Archaeology
At the Faculty of Archaeology, we investigate the development of human societies worldwide, from the earliest beginnings to modern times. We also study the heritage of mankind, which evokes this deep history, and which connects with, and informs, contemporary society.
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Amanda Foks receives Dekker grant from Dutch Hartstichting
Pharmacologist Amanda Foks is one of the ten talented scientists who received a Dekker grant from the Hartstichting. She receives €427,000 to find a way to rejuvenate immune cells to prevent infarcts. Foks was nominated as Discoverer of the Year in 2016.
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Porthos ruling has major consequences for Dutch construction sector
The Council of State in the Netherlands gave a ruling in the so-called Porthos case which revolves around the exemption currently in place for nitrogen emitted during the construction of major projects such as housing. The Administrative Law Division of the Council of State ruled that the partial construction…
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Aafje de Roest: ‘As an expert in Dutch Studies you have the right skills to research hip hop’
Aafje de Roest turned her hobby into her job. She went from a teenager who enjoyed listening to hip hop music to a PhD candidate who focuses on how Dutch hip hop music shapes the cultural identity of young people in the Netherlands.
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Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe, 1200-1600
Louis Sicking's Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe was awarded an 'Internationalisation in the Humanities' grant from NWO. What can we learn from how maritime conflicts were managed in the past?
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External communication pool of the Dutch Government visits CPL
On Thursday evening, 7 December, the Centre for Professional Learning (CPL) gave the government's external communication pool a glimpse of what there is to learn about Public Affairs and the scientific research that is being done about it within the Faculty of Governance & Global Affairs.
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Which Leiden alumni are in the Dutch House of Representatives?
Of the 150 elected representatives, 24 studied or conducted their PhD research in Leiden. Who are they and which degrees are most popular among these MPs?
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‘Dutch people should take human trafficking more seriously'
Citizens underestimate their role, but they really can make a difference, says legal specialist Corinne Dettmeijer-Vermeulen. Combatting injustice is still the mission of this former National Rapporteur on Human Trafficking and Sexual Violence against Children. She will deliver the Cleveringa lecture…
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Research platform Ghent University
Through its new platform Medieval/Modern Ghent University researchers in Medieval Studies make their research publicly available.
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Vacancy postdoc (Oslo)
The University of Oslo offers two three-year postdoctoral positions: one with a background in early medieval liturgy and the other in early medieval cultures of healing. The successful applicants will join the MINiTEXTS research group at the department (up to 10 group members) with regular activities,…
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Postdoc (Utrecht)
Utrecht University is looking for two researchers (1 PhD candidate and 1 Postdoc) to form the team of the VIDI project Lettercraft and Epistolary Performance in Early Medieval Europe, 476–751 CE, granted to dr. Robert Flierman and running from 2023-2027. As a postdoc, you will work together with the…
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Chibuike Uche
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Erik Kwakkel elected to the Comité International de Paléographie Latine (CIPL)
On 18 June, 2015, Erik Kwakkel was elected to the Comité International de Paléographie Latine (CIPL), a scholarly committee that specializes in the study of the medieval book.
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Over lokalisme, liefdewerk en lonkend perspectief: Verkenning naar participatie en burgerinitiatief in de Nederlandse archeologie.
Dit rapport maakt deel uit van het project Receptenboek burgerparticipatie in opdracht van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) en met steun van het Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie.
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Postdoc positions Charles University (Prague)
Charles University (Prague) is seeking highly qualified international post-doc researchers in the following domains: medieval literature, medieval Latin, and medieval philosophy. Deadline: 15 July 2021.
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400 years of ties celebrated with new Dutch-Turkish dictionary
The new Dutch-Turkish dictionary has been completed, just in time for the celebration of 400 years of Dutch-Turkish ties. It would not have been possible without Gerjan van Schaaik and Mehmet Emin Yıldırım from Leiden University. On Wednesday 18 April the Education Minister Marja van Bijsterveldt will…
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Resumptive Prolepsis. A Study in Indirect A'-Dependencies
This dissertation investigates A'-dependencies in Standard German, Zurich German and Dutch where the dislocated constituent is indirectly, i.e. not transformationally, related to the position where it is interpreted. The analysis is carried out within the Principles & Parameters framework.
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Jorrit Rijpma speaks at a webinar of the Dutch Embassy in Rome
On 23 September the Dutch Embassy in Rome organised a round table on “Migration in times of the Coronavirus”, in cooperation with MoltiVolti, an NGO from Palermo which works in the field of integration of migrants and asylum seekers in Italy.
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Rectores magnifici of the Dutch universities: a good university is international too
The Netherlands is an open country and should remain so. This is what the rectores magnifici of the Dutch universities write in an opinion piece. Because academic training that does not provide enough of an international perspective lacks quality and relevance to the job market and society.
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Panel discussion on unique research into the living conditions of Dutch fighters in Syria
Researchers from Leiden University have investigated the living conditions of Dutch fighters in Syria. Their report is central to a panel discussion on Tuesday, 24 May.
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Analysis of court rulings on ACM decisions under Dutch Competition Act
Prof. Ottervanger, professor emeritus of European Law and Dutch Competition Law has analysed 36 final court judgments concerning decisions by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM) in competition cases. The report was part of the review of the ACM that was conducted by the Dutch Ministry…