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‘Medieval women had their first child much later than previously thought’NWO grant 03 February 2026Costume dramas would have us believe that women in the Middle Ages became mothers at a much younger age than they do today. University lecturer Krista...
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In early modern England, children were sold to the highest bidder: 'This was presented as a care system'27 January 2026Children who lost their fathers in early modern England ran the risk of being sold to the highest bidder. Although Shakespeare wrote about it in his p...
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'Research 06 November 2025
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases i...
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Jonathan Powell: ‘In early modern England, people went to court very often.’Humans of Humanities 20 October 2025Jonathan Powell came to Leiden from England to conduct research into the role of women in early modern court cases. In addition to all kinds of exciti...
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Alisa van de Haar: ‘People with linguistic skills have always played a very important role in society’New research 17 October 2025Who was professionally involved in language between 1550 and 1650? And what were the financial returns of this language sector? Assistant Professor Al...
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4 KIEM grants for Humanities03 July 2025Four projects led by the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded KIEM grants. The researchers will receive €10,000 to carry out their plans.
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Poetry Translation Competition: Fun and Games with Language31 January 2025In November, Leiden organized a book presentation to celebrate the first Dutch translation of the collected works of the twentieth-century poet W.H. A...
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Keyhole surgery on old books leads to discovery of medieval fragments13 January 2025An endoscopic camera was used to record images of reused medieval fragments on the inside of book bindings from the 16th and 17th centuries. The uniqu...
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’04 November 2024GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in ...
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’16 July 2024Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping ...
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Mapping historical marine life: Johannes Müller is researching the history of ecosystems27 June 2024The underwater world around present-day Indonesia has changed greatly in recent centuries as a result of human activity. University lecturer Johannes ...
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In search of hidden voices06 May 2024Nearly all documents from the 16th and 17th centuries were written by more than one person but attributed to only one author. Professor Nadine Akkerma...
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Cultural contacts between ‘East’ and ‘West’ in the early Middle Ages12 March 2024With the help of the JEDI fund, Fatima al Moufridji and Thijs Porck went in search of cultural contacts between early medieval England, Northern Afric...
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KNAW Early Career Award for Alisa van de Haar: ‘I want to take a more positive approach to migration and multilingualism’22 February 2024Alisa van de Haar is one of three humanities scholars to win a KNAW Early Career Award this year. The university lecturer of Ancient French Literature...
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A princess’s psalter recovered? Pieces of a 1,000-year-old manuscript in Alkmaar book bindings11 January 2024A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: a number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript f...