1,203 search results for “middle english” in the Public website
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The End of our Third Decade (volume II)
Papers written on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the institute of Prehistory, Volume II.
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Research
LIAS has a School of Asian Studies (SAS), a School of Middle-Eastern Studies (SMES) and a School of Religious Studies (LUCSoR). These designations, and the fields within them, remain foundational to our work. At the same time, the academic community benefits from the presence of cross-regional networks…
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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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About
This research cluster explores processes of cultural creation, reception and transformation within a wide range of societal contexts from the early Middle Ages until c. 1800.
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Lebanon
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik.
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Registration
Registration is now closed. Registration for Speech Prosody 2024 included two steps:
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A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
As a critical commemoration of its centenary, this book presents a mosaic of one hundred carefully curated fragments by expert authors, shedding light on politics, economy, society, culture, gender, and arts in a hundred years of Turkey.
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Asian Studies (research) (MA)
Designed for high-achieving students, Leiden University’s research MA Asian Studies offers access to unique resources and expertise. Asian Studies at Leiden University has a reputation for excellence that is unmatched in Europe.
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Maaike Warnaar in the news about the Iranian elections
On 29 February there appeared a column by Maaike Warnaar in the Volkskrant on the Iranian elections.
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Experts at Leiden University
As a student or staff member at Leiden University, do you want to organise a meeting and invite an expert? We advise you to contact one of these institutes.
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Fieldwork Neumark-Nord 2
Large-scale excavations at Neumark-Nord 2 (Germany), a very rich Middle Palaeolithic site with excellent preservation of organic (faunal and floral) remains and lithics in fine-grained lake deposits, dating to about 125,000 years ago.
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Política del anonimato en el cine de América Latina
This research aims to address the relationship between cinema and political thought in Latin America, in order to question a limited understanding of cinema politics, which has dominated the field of study since the middle of the last century, and to propose a different one that we will call politics…
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Japanese Studies
LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.
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I 'Disticha Catonis' di Catenaccio da Anagni. Testo in volgare laziale (secc. XIII ex. - XIV in.)
The Disticha Catonis by Catenaccio of Anagni. A text in vernacular from Latium (late 13th - early 14th century)
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Cultural Production
This research network aims to create a shared platform for debate and dialogue on the broader theme of cultural production and exchange across different area specializations and historical periods.
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Traces on tropical tools
A functional study of chert artefacts from preceramic sites in Colombia (2002)
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Maastricht-Belvédère
Stratigraphy, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Middle and Late Pleistocene Deposits.
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LUCIS Keynotes
The premier LUCIS lecture series, running since 2021. Each year, two eminent scholars visit Leiden to deliver landmark lectures in Islamic and Middle East Studies. This forum for presenting and discussing cutting-edge research brings together researchers, students, and other interested participants…
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Research
The VVI seeks to advance knowledge of the formation and functioning of legal systems in their social contexts, the impact of these systems on society and vice versa, their effectiveness in governance, and their contribution to development.
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Korean Studies
LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.
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Neolithisation of Northeastern Africa
Studies in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment, vol.16. Edited by Noriyuki Shirai.
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Histories Connected
Histories Connected seeks to explore social, cultural, and political issues that connect people of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Europe throughout different periods of time.
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The indivisibility of pledge and hypothec
What are the historical roots of the indivisibility of pledge and hypothec?
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Journals
The Faculty of Archaeology produces several journals
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Egyptology
LIAS aims to advance the globally conscious vision of area studies, both within and outside the academic community. Focusing on Asia and the Middle East, the institute is a meeting place of multiple fields of inquiry, theories and methods, historical periods, and areas.
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The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia
Turkey's Belle Epoque and the Transition to a Modern Nation State
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Contact
If you have a question, there are various ways to get in touch with us.
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Law, Culture and Development
Law is of major importance for socio-economic development. Ideally, law organizes human interaction in a way that promotes justice and legal certainty and protects vulnerable groups from exploitation and arbitrariness.
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About the programme
The master’s in Philosophy is a one-year, English-taught programme. The programme offers five specialisations:
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Symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
On 25 and 26 October 2024, the first biennial symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries, is scheduled to take place at Leiden University.
- Symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
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Tell Hammam (Syria)
The Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University ran an excavation project in Northern Syria, at Tell Hammam al Turkman, some 80 km north of Raqqa. The Faculty of Archaeology and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research N.W.O. finance the undertaking, which is directed by dr Diederik J.W.…
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Ethnicity in Medieval Europe, 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion
An investigation into how racial stereotypes were created and used in the European Middle Ages.
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Peter Liebregts guest lecturer in Canterbury
At the invitation of the Centre for Early Christianity and Its Reception (CECIR), Peter Liebregts, Full Professor of Modern Literatures in English (LUCAS), visited the University of Kent in Canterbury from March 17 to 20, to give a lecture and a masterclass.
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Weblogs and podcasts
Academic staff and students blog about their research and teaching.
- Seminar 4: The Formation of Discourse Communities in the Early Middle Ages
- International conference: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling
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Excavations at Neumark
The Middle Paleolithic site of Neumark was first discovered in the 1980’s by German geologist Matthias Thomae.
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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?
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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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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
- Week 6: 12-18 February 2017
- Week 2: 14-20 January 2018
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Scholarly meetings
At LUCIS we offer a varied programme of scholarly meetings (conferences, workshops) which reflect our multidisciplinary and comparative view on Islam and Muslim societies in past and present.
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Research per university
What follows is a survey of existing programs and current projects for each of the participating universities.
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The KU Leuven Dayr al-Barsha project
Update : March 2020 Director: Professor Dr Harco Willems (KU Leuven), co-director Dr Marleen De Meyer (KU Leuven & NVIC)
- Week 2: 12–18 January, 2020
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Ongoing excavations at Les Cottés (near Poitiers, France)
Les Cottés is one the rare site in western Europe with occupations in sequence by the very last Neandertals and the first anatomically modern humans.
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Spanish-English contact in the Falkland Islands
Lecture
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Leiden Studies in Islam and Society (Brill)
With Brill, LUCIS publishes a peer-reviewed book series, “Leiden Studies in Islam and Society” (LSIS), aimed at an international academic audience.