394 search results for “medieval dutch literature” in the Student website
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books
Assistant Professor Anna Dlabacova has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. She will use this grant of around 1.5 million euros to conduct research on the Dutch vernacular ‘book of hours’.
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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Krista Murchison in History Today on medieval pen-twisters
Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction between letters composed of minims. Assistant professor of medieval literature Krista Murchison has written an article in History Today on the hidden…
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Aristocracies: Charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Visit the University of Helsinki for the Medieval-Modern Forum
Education
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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Oosterbaan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Epko Bult
Faculteit Archeologie
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Robert Stein
Faculty of Humanities
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…
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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana
Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the project 'The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA), seven European heritage institutions added 30,000 digitised medieval items to Europeana’s database…
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Egbert Bos
Faculty of Humanities
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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers
What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture, Professor Mariken Teeuwen will talk about the texts they wrote in the margin.
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities
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Weishuo Li
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nick Tomberge
Faculty of Humanities
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Dutch Lessons
POPcorner FSW organizes Dutch Lessons, also in the Hague.
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Antoinette Huijbers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Dusan Maczek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Frans Theuws
Faculteit Archeologie
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Roos van Oosten
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’
Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looking forward to doing research together with students.’
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Antheun Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Skeletal Evidence for Malaria in the Medieval Netherlands
Until very recently malaria was an impactful disease in the Netherlands. While currently mainly regarded as a tropical disease, references to symptoms which could be related to the disease are found in several historical documents from the 17th century onwards. To be able to better understand this disease…
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Medieval Oegstgeest did business with all of Europe
Generations of Leiden students and academics have done archaeological research into the early medieval history of Oegstgeest. This makes this old settlement one of the best-documented sites from that era. In a new book Leiden researchers take stock.
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Angkor region was actually a large Medieval city
The Greater Angkor Region in contemporary Cambodia was dramatically more urbanized in the 13th century than previously thought, and home to 700.000 to 900.000 people. These discoveries were made by a research team led by Sarah Klassen. Their findings are published in Science Advances.
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Using a camera to look into a book's spine: ‘You might just find that one rare text’
What do you do if you have a book from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, but you suspect that the binding contains a fragment of a medieval manuscript? University lecturer Thijs Porck has received an NWO grant to experiment with a camera attached to a tube. 'The project boils down to keyhole surgeries…
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
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Ronald Kon
Faculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Joe Fortin
Faculty of Humanities
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Claudia Bouteligier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
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Alireza Asghari
Faculty of Humanities
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Maia Casna
Faculteit Archeologie
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Roosje Peeters
Faculty of Humanities
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Dionysios Kalantzis-Papadopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jip Barreveld
Faculteit Archeologie