536 search results for “medieval history” in the Student website
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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regarded as a tropical disease, references to symptoms which could be related to the disease are found in several historical documents from the 17th century onwards.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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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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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
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Alireza Asghari
Faculty of Humanities
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Dionysios Kalantzis-Papadopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jip Barreveld
Faculteit Archeologie
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Boender
Faculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Faculty of Humanities
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Helen Steele
Faculty of Humanities
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Touwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas
Faculty of Humanities
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Oddly-shaped medieval vessels found all over the Islamic world have puzzled archaeologists for decades.
'When taking into account all finds in the Islamic world of this enigmatic vessel, it would perhaps be wise not to restrict this container to merely one function.'
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Jeannette Kamp
Faculty of Humanities
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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
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Leo Lucassen
Faculty of Humanities
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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Ariadne Schmidt
Faculty of Humanities
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Weishuo Li
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Letty ten Harkel
Faculteit Archeologie
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Randal Sheppard
Faculty of Humanities
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Archaeology student Anne Wagemakers wins LISF prize for report on research in Spain
With the help of a LUF grant, archaeology student Anne Wagemakers investigated an archaeological assemblage in Spain. Now her research report has won the annual LISF prize.
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty of Humanities
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Between Admiration and Repulsion: The ‘Witch’ in Medieval Islam
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Ben Schoenmaker
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Boot
Faculty of Humanities
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Femme Gaastra
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Gräfin von Courten
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities