502 search results for “middle ages” in the Student website
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages
With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Africa, and the Middle East. Together they made four knowledge clips that can now be seen on YouTube.
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Jip Barreveld
Faculteit Archeologie
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Rosa van der Mast
Faculteit Geneeskunde
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Mette Langbroek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Dusan Maczek
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie
- Kids Activities @ Middle Eastern Culture Market
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Jiequan Yong
Faculteit Archeologie
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Archaeologist Valerio Gentile investigates Bronze Age spear combat
How can we tell whether and how a prehistoric weapon was used? How can we better understand the dexterity and combat skills involved in Bronze Age spear fighting? A research team from Leiden and Göttingen University present a new approach to answering these questions: they simulated the actual fight…
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Femke Lippok
Faculteit Archeologie
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Professor by special appointment 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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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Shahab Daneshvar
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria Riep
Faculteit Archeologie
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Eftychia Mylona
Faculty of Humanities
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Shuqi Jia
Faculty of Humanities
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
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mat Immerzeel
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Kees Colder
Faculty of Humanities
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Léon Buskens
Faculty of Humanities
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…
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46th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL46)
Conference
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Stone Age Chronicles: The Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Southern Africa
Conference
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Wenyu Wan
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Devotion & Immersive Play - The Use of 'Spiritual Toys' in the Late Middle Ages
Lecture
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Ugur Derin
Faculty of Humanities
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Deniz Tat
Faculty of Humanities
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Onur Ada
Faculty of Humanities
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Omer Kocyigit
Faculty of Humanities
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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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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Erik-jan Zurcher
Faculty of Humanities
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List
The perception of the Middle East is riddled with stereotypes that have had dire consequences on its people. What is myth and what is reality? How did these stereotypes come about? What consequences have they had? All of these questions and more are answered within this reading list.
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Geeske Langejans
Faculteit Archeologie
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2021: Evening Edition
This year, LUCIS adapted the programme of its popular annual Middle Eastern Culture Market into an evening version, featuring a lecture, book discussion, and music.
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Jingjing Cao
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ilse Schuitema
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Julia van den Berg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Fenying Zang
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jamaseb Soltani
Faculty of Humanities
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Scores of visitors attend open evening at new Middle Eastern Library
Over 200 people paid their first visit to the new Middle Eastern Library on a special open evening. As well as exploring the library, they got to see exhibitions, speed lectures and premieres about Leiden University’s Middle Eastern collections.
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Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female collectors hardly seem to exist. Yet there were indeed women collectors. For the project Museums, Collections and Society, researcher Holly O'Farrell will…
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Book: The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East
Five questions for James Shires, assistant professor at ISGA, about his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East. The book is available to order now.