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Streaming the Sagas: a live role play in the North-European Age of Heroes21 February 2022Hwæt! You've heard of the adventures of the mighty Beowulf. You've heard of the brave folk standing beside him, and the awe-inspiring foes standing ag...
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books24 January 2022Assistant Professor Anna Dlabacova has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. She will use this grant of around 1.5 million e...
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Masterclass: Investigating Disegno: Drawing and the Decorative Arts in Italy c.1500-190014 December 2021This masterclass examines the idea of disegno in relation to the early modern decorative arts by investigating the collection of Italian design drawin...
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The surprising tradition of fables in French education: 'It builds bridges between generations'25 November 2021In the Netherlands, people probably grew up with De Fabeltjeskrant (a children’s show, ed.), but in France an introduction to fables plays a much more...
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Nadine Akkerman wins Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 202111 November 2021Nadine Akkerman, associate professor of early modern English literature is receiving the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 for her work.
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?30 September 2021Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in ...
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Nadine Akkerman is the winner of the LUCAS Audience Award 202116 June 2021The LUCAS Audience Award 2021 has been awarded to Nadine Akkerman. This is a prize for researchers who appeal to an audience wider than the academic c...
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The Netherlands enthralled by Spanish theatre07 June 2021Joost van den Vondel is considered to be the greatest Dutch poet and playwright of his time, but he certainly wasn’t the most popular. The 17th- and 1...
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Nadine Akkerman unearths treasonous painting of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, in research for new book23 March 2021In the research for her upcoming book, Elizabeth Stuart: Queen of Hearts, author and academic Nadine Akkerman stumbled upon a little-known portrait of...
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Thijs Porck elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society12 January 2021Thijs Porck, university lecturer of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal H...
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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize!11 November 2020Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Th...
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Major European subsidy for Nadine Akkerman and detective work into old, handwritten documents10 December 2019Nadine Akkerman has received a subsidy of two million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for research into 16th and 17th century English m...
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ERC Consolidator Grants for four Leiden researchers10 December 2019The European Research Council has awarded ERC Consolidator Grants to four researchers from Leiden. These grants of up to 2m euros will enable them to ...
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Charlotte Jacobs, first female pharmacist in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies01 October 2019External PhD candidate Annette Jenowein investigated how women have changed the meaning of gender by claiming their place in traditionally male-domina...
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A Persian love story and the creation of a rock classic23 August 2019What is the name of the medieval Persian poet Nezami (✞ ca. 1209) doing on the cover of an Eric Clapton rock album? Asghar Seyed Gohrab, associate pro...