1,189 search results for “medieval manuscripts” in the Public website
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Vacancy senior researcher (Oslo)
The University of Oslo offers a two-year senior researcher position with focus on early medieval Latin additions with musical notation. The successful applicants will join the MINiTEXTS research group at the department (up to 10 group members) with regular activities, internal seminars, workshops, and…
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Vacancy PhD (Oslo)
The University of Oslo offers two three-year PhD positions with focus on specific early medieval Latin textual additions. The successful applicants will join the MINiTEXTS research group at the department (up to 10 group members) with regular activities, internal seminars, workshops, and conferences.…
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Two new volumes 'Dutch Sources on South Asia'
Volume 4 and 5 of the Leiden series 'Dutch Sources on South Asia' are now available, written by Markus Vink (vol.4) and Carolien Stolte (vol.5).
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Contact
Do you have questions or remarks? Please contact the coordinators of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies cluster.
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The reconstruction of the codex Añute palimpsest using hyperspectral imaging data
A technique originally developed for satellite imaging can now be used to recover pictographic texts from underneath the surface of a five hundred year old Mexican manuscript.
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Religion: Buddhism in Asia
Many people in Asia and the West are attracted to Buddhism. This is because of this religion’s ‘image’ of being exotic and authentic.
- Medieval Latin - Session 7 - Exam
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Medieval Christianity in the Fayyum
Conference
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JLGC 08: Animals (Un)tamed: Human-Animal Encounters in Science, Art, and Literature
The eighth issue of the JLGC explores the diverse and interdisciplinary research on our multifaceted relationship with animals which is currently taking place, re-examining the relationship between humans and animals, and the definitions involved.
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The island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern times
ASLU 28 Michalis Karambinis (2015)
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About the Research School
Within the Dutch Research School for Medieval Studies, medievalists from six Dutch universities work together.
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Shiʿi studies
While many European universities, Leiden included, have a proud tradition of research into Islamic studies, a topical and thematic focus on Shiʿi Islam in all its dispensation remains a desideratum.
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History of Cultures, Knowledge and Ideas
It is integral to many cluster members’ research to use Medieval and Early Modern Arts as a lens for studying the medieval and early modern periods at large:
- Literary Culture (2/5 ECTS)
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Celestial worlds and comet hysteria in Van Dishoeck exhibition
A moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission, antique globes and the cosmos according to Wassily Kandinsky. Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics, has put together an impressive exhibition at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
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Sign of approval by the Spanish Inquisition
Book historian Erik Kwakkel found an intriguing snippet of text earlier this week, that bears unexpected evidence of some of the problems encoutered by early printers: censorship and the affiliated fuss of seeking and printing Church approval.
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Have All Those Books Gone? Translocation and Provenance in Studying Medieval Middle Eastern Writerly Cultures
Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2019)
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Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture
Archiving Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork Data from the Eastern Mediterranean (600-2000)
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Medicine/Magic of the Imams: Traditions of Healing among Early and Medieval Shīʿa
Lecture
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LAUNCH EVENT // 2 new Medieval and Early Modern Studies specialisations
Lecture
- Introduction to International Medieval Studies (5 ECTS)
- Introduction to Medieval Studies (5 ECTS)
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FEATHERS
When we read a text, we think we know who wrote it, but in the early modern period, manuscript production was often a collaborative or ‘socialised’ enterprise involving secretaries and scribes who physically wrote what the author dictated.
- Introduction to International Medieval Studies (5 ECTS)
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Medicine/Magic of the Imams: Traditions of Healing among Early and Medieval Shīʿa
Lecture
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Roman Provinces, Middle Ages and Modern Period
The conquest by Rome brought profound changes to large parts of Europe. Unprecedented infrastructural works were created, towns sprang up, a ribbon of fortresses was laid out along the frontiers.
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Medieval Mediterranean Study Group Introduction Symposium
Conference
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Text-image relationships in Persian manuscripts
Masterclass
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The Skandapurāṇa Project
Uniting an international consortium of scholars, the Skandapurāṇa Project comprises a team of researchers working in fields across the Humanities. We are creating a critical edition of a foundational work of purāṇic literature and, in doing so, tracing the dynamics of a textual tradition to better understand…
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Leiden Classics: Bibliotheca Thysiana, a 17th century time machine
From once controversial scientific works and historical bibles, to personal shopping lists and clothing bills. The 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana and the archive of the collector Johannes Thysius exhibit both the intellectual and everyday life as it was three hundred years ago. Now a brand-new digital…
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Future members of the Committee of Education and Research
On the next meeting of the Committee of Education and Research three new student representatives will be appointed.
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Discantare Super Planum Cantum- New Approaches to Vocal Polyphonic Improvisation 1300-1470
Today’s performances of medieval polyphony have a lot in common with those of other ‘classical’ or ‘early’ music. Ensembles perform pieces written by known or lesser known composers, which the listener can revisit by listening to recordings or reading a score.
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Production, Consumption and Agency
Central to the research of several cluster members are the social function and contexts of the production and consumption of medieval and early modern art, literature and media:
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Nubian Voices II
New Texts and Studies on Christian Nubian Culture
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In Touch with the Dead
Early Medieval Grave Reopenings in the Low Countries
- Princeton Medieval Studies Graduate Conference - Deadline
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LUCAS Medieval and Early Modern Cluster Meeting
Lecture
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Network Analysis of Myths, Medieval to Modern
Lecture
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Junius Symposium voor Jonge Oudgermanisten 2016
Conference
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Exhibition of Panji, Diponegoro and La Galigo manuscripts
Exhibition
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Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape
In Mapping the Pāśupata Landscape: Narrative, Place, and the Śaiva Imaginary in Early Medieval North India, Elizabeth A. Cecil explores the sacred geography of the earliest community of Śiva devotees called the Pāśupatas.
- Visual Sources (5 ECTS)
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Meister Eckhart and the Low Countries: Medieval and Modern Connections in Literature and Religious Culture
Conference
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Feelings Matter: Emotions in Medieval Arabic
Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture (2018)
- Manuscript Monday: Early materials from the Leiden collection
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LUCIS Summer School: Philology & Manuscripts from the Muslim World
LUCIS Summer School
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Human Osteology and Funeral Archaeology
The Laboratory for Human Osteoarchaeology specialises in the macroscopic and microscopic analysis of human remains. We use cutting edge scientific approaches to address archaeological, historical, and anthropological research questions. In addition to paleopathological, histological, and 3D scanning…
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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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Thijs Porck participates in the SELIM conference in Granada, Spain
From 17 to 19 September, the University of Granada organized the 27th International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature (SELIM).