Medieval European History
Leiden’s Institute for History has an exceptionally strong expertise in Medieval European History, with specialists whose interests cover virtually the whole continent.
We have a strong track record in leading larger research teams and work together with colleagues across Europe and beyond. We study sources in a wide range of languages, and contribute to the development and curating of new digital data collections and open science initiatives.
News
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara -
Additional funding for five experimental and innovative research projects -
‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’ -
Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollmann: ‘We continually reference the past’ -
Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague
Events
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Language Professionals on the Move: the Language Sector and Migrant Agency in Early Modern Europe
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Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries
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Technology and the State: Enlightenment Language Machines, Then and Now
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Household Dominium and Enslavement in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Empire
Major Publications
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Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century -
Podcast New Books in History: Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion -
Dynastischer Nachwuchs als Hoffnungsträger und Argument in der Frühen Neuzeit -
Apocalypse Now: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries -
Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoppenbrouwers