514 search results for “medieval dutch literature” in the Staff website
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga van Marion
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
- Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
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Jeroen Oosterbaan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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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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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities
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Julia Szirmai
Faculty of Humanities
- Specialist literature
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Stein
Faculty of Humanities
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Ronald Kon
Faculty of Humanities
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcel IJsselstijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Egbert Bos
Faculty of Humanities
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Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Defilet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Carolien Boender
Faculty of Humanities
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Joe Fortin
Faculty of Humanities
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Claudia Bouteligier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Weishuo Li
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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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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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Peter Liebregts
Faculty of Humanities
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Online access to medieval manuscripts improved
Do you frequently search the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) for western medieval manuscripts? Then you must have noticed important changes lately. Some 1800 summary catalogue records in Dutch were replaced by more elaborate descriptions in English. Furthermore, the catalogue interface…
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and rebirth: Acts of recovery in gender separatist feminist utopian literature
PhD defence
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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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Antoinette Huijbers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Dusan Maczek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Annelies Schulte Nordholt
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Jonathan Price
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Wilt Idema
Faculty of Humanities
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Christoph Pieper
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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.