628 search results for “medieval” in the Public website
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Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece
The Corfu Papers
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Early Modern Medievalisms
Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production
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Medieval MasterChef
Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Cuisine and Western Foodways
- Medieval Latin (5 ECTS)
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Mapping Medieval Malaria
This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.
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Research School for Medieval Studies
Due to the national measures that have been taken in response to the corona virus the secretariat will work from home. This will inevitably have an impact on its functioning. Thank you for your understanding! Within the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, medievalists from six Dutch universities…
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Profile 1. State formation in medieval Frisia
Politically speaking, the Frisian coastal area constitutes a special case in late medieval Europe since it was not subject to an overlord as it withstood feudalization in the 13th century. Its many sub regions, which were dominated by elites of small noblemen and freeholders, long time succeeded in…
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The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship?
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Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?
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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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Medieval and Early Modern (600−1800)
This research cluster aims to analyse and interpret the creation, function, dissemination, and conservation of medieval and early modern culture by exploring the relationships between cultural products (texts, objects, practices) and their societal and historical contexts.
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Medieval and Early Modern Studies
The research themes and projects of this research cluster demonstrate the interest in the creation, conservation and dissemination of the literary and visual arts and their roles in society as outlined in the framework of the Institute’s research agenda and interests.
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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500, Third Edition
Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history, covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations, the impact of Christianisation, the formation of nations and states, the emergence of an expansionist commercial…
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Challenging the paradigm of filthy and unhealthy medieval towns
Mapping sanitary infrastructure in large urban societies in the Low Countries, 1200–1900
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Medieval and Post-Medieval Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Fact and Fiction
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Byzantine and Ottoman Archaeology, Amsterdam, 21-23 October 2011
- Introduction to International Medieval Studies (5 ECTS)
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Workshop 'Medieval Government Finance' - Call for Papers
The University of Reading will host an online workshop on 27 April 2021. It is aimed at early career and postgraduate research historians focusing on the area of medieval finance. The deadline for submissions is: 19 February 2021.
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Centre for Late Antique and Medieval studies
The Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies (LAMS) is an academic initiative housed at the Leiden University Institute of Philosophy. It brings together researchers and academics working on one or more aspects of late antiquity and medieval studies, across the fields of philosophy, history, theology,…
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Vacancy Assistant Professor Medieval History (Groningen)
The University of Groningen is looking for an Assistant Professor in Medieval History. The deadline for applications is: 14 February 2021.
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Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
This collection brings into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship which have tended to remain separate over the last two to three decades, a period of steadily increasing scholarly interest in this topic.
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Formalizations après la lettre. Studies in Medieval Logic and Semantics
This thesis attempts to establish a dialogue between the modern and the medieval traditions in logic, by means of ‘translations’ of the medieval logical theories into the modern framework of symbolic logic, i.e. formalizations.
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Village Community and Conflict in Late Medieval Drenthe
This new study by professor Peter Hoppenbrouwers focuses on conflict in village communities of late medieval Drenthe in order to depict a typical peasant society in late medieval Europe.
- Presenting Medieval Research at International Conferences (5 ECTS)
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Voices on Birchbark: Everyday Communication in Medieval Russia
In Voices on Birchbark Jos Schaeken explores the major role that writing on birchbark – an ephemeral, even ‘throw-away’ form of correspondence and administration – played in the vibrant medieval merchant city of Novgorod and other cities in the Russian Northwest.
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Ranking the towns: Medieval demography examined in spatial dimensions
This project incorporates spatiality into the discussion of medieval demography, allowing for a more nuanced view on medieval town populations. It establishes a maximum population count for towns for periods prior to 1400 and provides a means to compare the ranking of towns using size and density instead…
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Understanding Medieval Latin with the Help of Middle Dutch
Magistri Symonis (?) Questiones secunde partis Doctrinalis Alexandri de Villa Dei First Critical Edition from the Manuscript with Introduction, Appendices and Indexes
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Diplomacia y comercio en la Europa Atlántica medieval
This book is a result of the collective research project Urban Societies in the Port Towns of Atlantic Europe in the Late Middle Ages. It studies the connections between diplomacy and trade from a comparative and transnational perspective throughout medieval Atlantic Europe.
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Family, Work and Household in Late Medieval Iberia
Family, Work, and Household presents the social and occupational life of a late medieval Iberian town in rich, unprecedented detail. The book combines a diachronic study of two regionally prominent families—one knightly and one mercantile—with a detailed cross-sectional urban study of household and…
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The Hanse in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
The contributions in this volume seek to highlight the atypical features of the Hanse, and place them in a wider context of common roots, influences and parallel developments.
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Ethnicity, Orthodoxy, and Policy in Medieval China: The Political Philosophy of Wang Tong (584?-617)
This research project focuses on the thoughts of ethnicity and political orthodoxy in Medieval China by investigating Wang Tong’s works.
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What late medieval chant manuscripts do to a present-day performer of plainchant
This book is witness to Hendrik Vanden Abeele’s research into the development, construction and creation of a present-day performance practice of late medieval plainchant, based partly on his work with the Belgian chant group Psallentes.
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What late medieval chant manuscripts do to a present-day performer of plainchant
This research project aims to investigate the development, construction and creation of a present-day performance practice of late medieval plainchant, based partly on his work with the Belgian chant group Psallentes.
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The mystical kiss of the mouth. The role of images and imagery in medieval spirituality (1100-1500)
How can the importance of the image in late medieval spirituality be understood in the context of the love mysticism inspired by the imagery of the Song of Songs?
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The use of animal manure by prehistoric and early medieval farmers
Did early farmers deliberately use animal manure on their fields?
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Rural riches and royal rags
This book is a celebration of the work of Professor Frans Theuws and was published in conjunction with the symposium held at the University of Leiden, June 29, 2018. It comprises of 38 archaeological papers from over 50 authors. They range from the Roman period, Early Medieval, Early medieval in the…
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The Transformation of the Roman World
One of the three long-term research interests of our group concerns the Transformation of the Roman World (c AD 450-900).
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#MeToo: current theme, Medieval phenomenon
Anyone who thinks that #MeToo is a new phenomenon, can think again. Subjects such as sexual intimidation, female self-defence and subjection to male desires can be found as early as in Medieval Islamic literature. Senior lecturer Asghar Seyed-Gohrab explains further on the Leiden Medievalists Blog,…
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Medieval Pen Trials In the News
Interview for National Public Radio sparks media frenzy.
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Digital Medieval Webinar Repository
The Digital Medievalist has recently created a curated Zenodo community, called the Digital Medieval Webinar Repository (DMWR) to house recorded presentations on medieval topics.
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Medieval Cat Paw Manuscript
Cat Paw Tweet Goes Viral
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Power and Persuasion. Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans
The transformation of the myriad of medieval kingdoms, principalities, local lordships, city-‘states’ and peasant ‘republics’ into ‘modern’ states, claiming some measure of sovereignty, remains one of the core themes of European history, because it gets down to the very root of the (idea on the) Europe…
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
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Language, law and loanwords in early medieval Gaul: language contact and studies in Gallo-Romance phonology
On October 9th, Peter Alexander Kerkhof succesfully defended his doctoral thesis and graduated. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Peter Alexander on this great result.
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Gastronomical archaeology in new book Medieval MasterChef
The archaeology of food is in all sorts of ways ‘hot’. To illustrate this, recently the book Medieval MasterChef was published, focusing on cuisine and foodways in the Mediterranean and north-western Europe during Medieval and Post-Medieval times.
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Presenting Medieval Research - Registration deadline
The course "Presenting Medieval Research at International Conferences" is open for registration. The deadline for registration is 10 September 2020.
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Medieval Memoria Research - Final newsletter
Medieval Memoria Research has published its final newsletter. This special MeMO-themed issue contains several articles about the MeMO project and its influence on the work of various scholars.
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Erik Kwakkel: the 'Sherlock Holmes' of medieval manuscripts
What can a doodle tell us about the person who drew it? Erik Kwakkel is a Dutch book historian at Leiden University who searches for the secret meanings of doodles and scribbles in medieval manuscripts. He talks to BBC World Service about his passion for books.
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Medieval waste matter found in Leiden University Library
Erik Kwakkel, researcher at the Faculty of Humanities, has found an extraordinary manuscript in the University Library’s extensive collection of medieval books. The book in question dates back to the first half of the eleventh century and is made entirely out of waste left over from the production of…
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Reconstructing a Medieval house in Vlaardingen
Nine Archaeology students have built a reconstruction of an early medieval house in Vlaardingen. The house, built according to a houseplan discovered during excavations at Rotta, has already played an important role as the backdrop of the re-enactment of the battle of Vlaardingen of 1018.
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New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World
Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship? Want to learn more? Then sign up for the new MOOC…