3,355 search results for “history of the middle east” in the Public website
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Egypt
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden University with the American University in Cairo.
- Brought under the law of the land
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Beyond the caves
The central question of this thesis is: What drives late Middle Paleolithic stone artifact variability? In its attempt to answer this question, this thesis is a contribution to understanding variability within and between late Middle Paleolithic assemblages of the European Plain.
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The mystical kiss of the mouth. The role of images and imagery in medieval spirituality (1100-1500)
How can the importance of the image in late medieval spirituality be understood in the context of the love mysticism inspired by the imagery of the Song of Songs?
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Demise of the domain. The financial troubles of fifteenth century, Low Countries princes
How did changes in the composition and exploitation of princely domains in various principalities of the Low Countries influence the development of ‘modern’ public finance systems, including the notion of public debt?
- Student experiences
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
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Göran Sundholm
Faculty of Humanities
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Jorrit Smit
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Claire Vergerio
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Kees Verduin
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marijana Vujosevic
Faculty of Humanities
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Sustainability courses and programmes
Leiden University offers its students a wide range of bachelor's, master's and minors that explore sustainability or climate. Here, you find an overview of those programmes in the academic year 2020-2021.
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LUCIP workshop: Meeting in the Middle
Conference
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Leiden University brought together the EU and the East African Community in first LEAC conference
On 29 and 30 April 2015 the Leiden Centre for East African Law (LEAC) hosted its first Annual Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference was organized in cooperation with the East African Court of Justice (EACJ) and compared integration through law in the EU and the EAC.
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Anita Keizers
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Caroline van Eck
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Stein
Faculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth Dieterman
Faculty of Humanities
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Da Jin
Faculty of Humanities
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Doreen Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Ruling Overseas: Connected Practices of Governance of Law
Ruling Overseas: Connected Practices of Governance of Law
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Hans Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Limin Teh
Faculty of Humanities
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Stijn Bussels
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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From the First Galaxies to the Peak of the Star Formation History
How did galaxies form? How did galaxies evolve?
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Extended Piano Techniques in Theory, History & Performance Practice
So-called
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Extended piano techniques : in theory, history and performance practice
Playing the piano with your forearm, plucking the strings, sawing through the piano: pianist Luk Vaes's doctoral dissertation covers all the techniques of play for which a piano is NOT designed. His defence ceremony will consist of three concerts and a public defence. 'Musicians were using the interior…
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Foreign capital and colonial development in Indonesia
The proposed research program studies the impact of private foreign investment on development in Indonesia during the years c. 1910-1960.
- Teaching Art History and Cultural and Art Education (MA)
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart van der Boom
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrew Shield
Faculty of Humanities
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Beyond the trenches
A landscape-oriented chronostratigraphic approach to MIS 5 Middle Paleolithic open-air sites on the European Plain : case studies from Lichtenberg and Khotylevo I
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Noa Schonmann
Faculty of Humanities
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What soy sauce can teach us about the history of South Korea
‘Three books published within a year – that happens only once in a lifetime!’ This was the reaction of Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, on the publication of Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War, one of her three new books. The book sketches the colonisation of…
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Arabic & Islamic Studies
Research projects which are assisted by the NVIC in the field of Arabic studies.
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Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (140-1700)
'The World Upside Down. The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny's Natural History and Mela's De situ orbis (140-1700)', in: Enenkel, K.A.E. & Nellen, H. (Eds.), Neo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period (1400-1700).Humanistica…
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LEAC awarded EU and EAC grant for work in East Africa
The Leiden Centre for East African Law (LEAC) has been awarded a grant of €25.000 by the EU delegation to the East African Community (EAC) and the Secretariat of the EAC.
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.
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Yearbook for Dutch Book History - Call for Papers
The Yearbook for Dutch Book History publishes Dutch and English articles on the book history of the Low Countries, in all time periods (including the Middle Ages). For the 30th Yearbook, to be published in 2023, they welcome in particular contributions for the theme ‘Technology and Transformation’.…
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?