1936 search results for “early modern history” in the Public website
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Neanderthals and modern humans
This project focuses on the study of Neanderthal and early modern human behavior, primarily on the basis of stone tools, fauna and spatial patterns
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Early Music Beyond Authenticity
Interpretation and Composition Outside the Work Concept
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First Modern Humans
The Gravettian technocomplex dates to the period of 30,000 to 20,000 bp and is spread across Europe. This research theme explores the impact of the climatic and environmental changes during the pleniglacial on the Gravettian of northwestern and central Europe.
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Dynasties - A Global History of Power, 1300–1800
For thousands of years, societies have fallen under the reign of a single leader, ruling as chief, king, or emperor. In this fascinating global history of medieval and early modern dynastic power, Jeroen Duindam charts the rise and fall of dynasties, the rituals of rulership, and the contested presence…
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Global Exchanges. Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World
Exchanges between different cultures and institutions of learning have taken place for centuries, but it was only in the twentieth century that such efforts evolved into formal programs that received focused attention from nation-states, empires and international organizations.
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Introducing: Esther Baakman
Esther Baakman is a PhD-candidate at Leiden University Institute for History.
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Amorites in the early Old Babylonian Period
This thesis explores several aspects of these Early Old Babylonian Amorites.
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Memory before Modernity
This synthesis brings together strands developed in the four studies, sets out memories of the Revolt and presents the Low Countries as a case study.
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Discovery of El Greco: The Nationalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860-1915)
The Discovery of El Greco: The Nationalization of Culture Versus the Rise of Modern Art (1860-1915)
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Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
This seminal volume covers the entire global history of urbanization since the rise of cities in Mesopotamia in the 6th millennium BC. Leiden historians Wim Blockmans, Leonard Blussé, Luuk de Ligt and Leo Lucassen contributed survey and thematic chapters.
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Introducing Didi van Trijp
Didi van Trijp started her PhD project at LUCAS in October 2015. Her PhD project is part of A New History of Fishes. A long-term approach to fishes in science and culture, 1550-1880, a project directed by prof. dr. Paul Smith.
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A Cultural History of Thunderstorms
How did the invention and implementation of the lightning rod change the perception of thunderstorms on a scientific, technical, religious and artistic level, in the Netherlands and beyond, during the period 1752-1830?
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Colonial and Global History 1200-present
Colonial and Global History 1200-present explores the global circulation of people, goods and ideas during early-modern and modern times. Taking a comparative perspective, this program investigates the development of transnational and transcontinental connections and their impact on the making of identities,…
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Early modern traders circumvented rules of states and companies
Individual traders should be at the forefront of the study of early modern world trade rather than institutions such as states and companies, argues Professor of Global Economic Networks Cátia Antunes. Inaugural lecture on 9 June.
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Profile 3. Sources on Frisian medieval history
Due to the fact that the Frisian lands lacked major political centers in the Middle Ages and also because most of its monasteries suffered complete destruction in the second half of the 16th century, relatively few written documents concerning medieval Frisian history have survived. To analyze them…
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From Find Scatters to Early Hominid Behaviour
A Study of Middle Palaeolithic Riverside Settlements at Maastricht-Belvédère (The Netherlands).
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Party Law in Modern Europe
The legal regulation of political parties in post-war Europe.
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Asian Modernities and Traditions
The research profile ‘Asian Modernities and Traditions’ (AMT) aims to raise the strength and visibility of research, teaching and dissemination on Asian studies at Leiden University. AMT focuses on those areas where there are clear strengths or exciting new developments ahead, bundled into five them…
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History
Leiden University was the first university to be established in the Netherlands. William of Orange gave Leiden Academia Lugduno Batava in 1575, it is said in recognition of the city’s courageous resistance against the seige by the Spanish invaders.
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Research Field: New Diplomatic History
Diplomatic History has never been a static discipline. The traditional, orthodox approach of piecing together the decision-making processes of policy-makers remains central, with its goal of reconstructing the reality of statecraft the defining characteristic. This approach - what A.J.P. Taylor referred…
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Centre for Modern Urban Studies
The Centre for Modern Urban Studies (MUS) is a multidisciplinary research institute that looks at historic and current changes in large cities. Our research is focussed on socio-cultural, economical, legal or technological change and the ways all these elements interact.
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Higgs dynamics in the early universe
In the early universe, the dynamics of the Higgs field can give rise to many interesting phenomena.
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The polemics between Protestant ‘moderns’ and Roman Catholics in the Netherlands, 1840-1910
What representations of Protestant moderns by Roman Catholics, and vice versa, are reflected in 19th-century ‘casual’ media published between 1840 and 1910, and can we see a development over that period?
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History
About the history of ProParte and its predecessors.
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Early stellar galaxies
Franx
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Islam, Colonialism and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies
A Biography of Sayyid ʿUthman (1822–1914)
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Introducing: Maria Pereira Bastião
Maria started as a team-member in one of dr. Catia Antunes' research projects in December 2014 as Early Stage Researcher of the Marie Curie – ITN Project ForSEAdiscovery on ‘Portuguese forest resources and timber supply in the Early Modern period’.
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Medieval Studies and Early Modern Studies: New options for the Master’s programme in Leiden
Leiden University is home to over a hundred specialists studying the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. From 2017-2018 onwards, they will join forces to offer two new options for specialisation within existing MA programmes: Medieval Studies and Early Modern Studies.
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Democracy in Europe. A Conceptual History
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world.
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Nadine Akkerman
Faculty of Humanities
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The Impact of Name Writing on Early Literacy
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Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization
Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC)
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Bruno Munari and the invention of modern graphic design in Italy, 1928-1945
Bruno Munari (1907–1998) was a prolific and influential artist, designer, and writer. Alessandro Colizzi’s study is the first extensive, detailed record of Munari’s graphic design production, and as such provides a substantial base for a full understanding of his oeuvre.
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Economic History
The Economic History subtrack focuses on global Interdependence. It emphasizes the role of business and labour in a global world.
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Helen Steele
Faculty of Humanities
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Idols of the Mind: Modern Variations on a Baconian Theme, 1800-2000
Drawing on a broad array of sources, this project examines modern retrievals of Bacon’s idols, thereby testing Justus von Liebig’s intriguing observation, back in 1863, that Bacon’s name lived on mainly in mottos or stereotypical phrases. More importantly, it examines the rhetorical purposes served…
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Ana Achúcarro (The Early Universe)
We explore the particle physics and quantum world at the time of the big bang.
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Profiling Leiden Japan Sources in the Global History field: From Bipolar to Multipolar Research
Leiden University Library and related museum holdings in Leiden contain a body of materials showing the unique role of Dutch-Japanese trade relations as a node in the history of global flows of knowledge, materials and culture during the early modern period.
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Byzantine to Modern Pottery in the Aegean
An Introduction and Field Guide, Second and Revised Edition (15 December 2014)
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Global Conflict in the Modern Era (MA)
The specialisation Global Conflict in the Modern Era of the master’s in International Relations at Leiden University engages you with the scholarly debates about global conflict today and in the recent past.
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Eurasian Encounters: Museums, Missions, Modernities
This book explores the intellectual and cultural flows between Asia and Europe which occurred during – and were formative of – the political and social changes of the first half of the twentieth century.
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Register of Early Modernists at Leiden University
The Register of Early Modernists aims to facilitate collaboration between early modern researchers at Leiden University.
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Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere
Jews and Christians in the Middle East
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History
The Old Observatory has a rich history. On this page you will find a short version of the history that took place in the observatory.
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Alessandro Colizzi - Bruno Munari and the invention of modern graphic design in Italy, 1928-1945
This study examines Bruno Munari’s work as a graphic designer from the late 1920s to mid-1940s, with the aim of understanding the emergence and characteristics of the modernist trend in Italian graphic design.
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Vernacular Books and Reading Experiences in the Early Age of Print
Conference
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History (MA)
The History Master at Leiden University has a strong international orientation.
- Areal Histories
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Maritime History
Maritime History encompasses humankind’s relationships to the seas and oceans of the world.