2,161 search results for “hellenistic literature” in the Public website
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The Unification of the Mediterranean World 400 BC - 400 AD
The Leiden Ancient History specialization concentrates on the study of the economies, societies and cultures of the large empires of the Graeco-Roman world, starting with the empires of Alexander the Great and his successors. The appearance of these empires led to the development of an interaction network…
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Yra van Dijk
Faculty of Humanities
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Dutch Centre for Travel Writing Studies
The Dutch Center for Travel Writing Studies s a scientific center that develops and coordinates initiatives to promote research into travel writing. It actively seeks contact with external (scientific and social) partners to collaborate on issues surrounding cultural / national identity, cultural contact…
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The imagination as gaoler and as escape
Fiction is more effective than autobiographical non-fiction when it comes to conveying the sensation of enforced solitary confinement. That is the conclusion of writer and lawyer Maarten Asscher in his study 'Het uur der waarheid. Over de gevangenschap als literaire ervaring' (The Moment of Truth: Imprisonment…
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Imagining the Arabs
Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
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The Love Mad in Arabic Literature
Lecture
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Sara Polak
Faculty of Humanities
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Annachiara Raia
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
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publication of Domestic Homicide; a much-needed synthesis of the literature on domestic homicide.
By Marieke Liem and Frans Koenraadt. Domestic homicide constitutes an extreme type of interpersonal violence. This book offers a much-needed synthesis of the literature on domestic homicide, covering its history; the theories supporting it; its various forms such as filicide, intimate partner homicide,…
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Tazuko van Berkel
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonas Hock
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabriel Inzaurralde
Faculty of Humanities
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Lotte Fikkers
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Webb
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Adriaan Rademaker
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske Keijser
Faculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Willemijn Waal
Faculty of Humanities
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Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam
Faculty of Humanities
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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Modern and Contemporary (1800−Present)
This research cluster centres on regional, national, and global intersections and interactions between a variety of artistic expressions and society. It focuses not only on objects (artistic, literary, cinematic, and medial), but also on practices (aesthetic, political, and cultural).
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Bram Ieven
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim van Anrooij
Faculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Tessa de Zeeuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Landscapes of Survival
Pastoralist Societies, Rock Art and Literacy in Jordan’s Black Desert (200 BC to 800 AD)
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Library
The library of the NVIC is an academic reference library. The goal of the library is to support academic research and the teaching programmes of the NVIC in the fields of Arabic studies and Egyptology. However, the collection contains publications for a more generally interested public as well.
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Symposium Language, Literature, and Social Cognition
Conference
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Papyrology
The Leiden Papyrological Institute is the only papyrological institute in the Netherlands, and one of the few institutes in the world where study of Greek and Demotic Egyptian is combined. This is reflected in both teaching and research. Members of the Institute are active in publishing texts from various…
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The Spirit of the Page: Books and Readers at the Abbey of Fécamp, c.1000-1200
This dissertation examines how Benedictine monks at the Abbey of Fécamp designed, produced, and read books over the course of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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Joris Raven
Faculty of Humanities
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Louise Müller
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Minnaard
Faculty of Humanities
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Louis Verreth
Faculty of Humanities
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Astrid van Weyenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Johanna Kardux
Faculty of Humanities
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Susanna de Beer
Faculty of Humanities
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Friendship among Women in Arabic and Chinese Literatures
Lecture
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Verhaar
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
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Sajed Chowdhury
Faculty of Humanities
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Fernanda Korovsky Moura
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadine Akkerman
Faculty of Humanities
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Anna Dlabacova
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Brandellero
Faculty of Humanities