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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize! 11 November 2020
Thijs 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 documents 10 December 2019
Nadine 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 researchers 10 December 2019
The 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 Indies 01 October 2019
External 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 classic 23 August 2019
What 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...
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Podcast: how Rembrandt found his voice 08 July 2019
Rembrandt lived long before audio and video recordings were invented. But a group of researchers has managed to reconstruct his voice. How? Lecturer i...
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'Invisible agents' by Nadine Akkerman most discussed book at Hay Festival 21 June 2019
University Lecturer Nadine Akkerman concluded her book tour for her book 'Invisible Agents' in England at the Hay Festival. At the festival, attended ...
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The early Middle Ages a ‘golden age for the elderly’? Not quite! 14 February 2019
According to a number of British historians, the elderly had a particularly high status in the early Middle Ages. A new book by Leiden cultural histor...
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Elizabeth den Hartog: ‘I always knew I wanted to go into academia’ 24 January 2019
Art historian Elizabeth den Hartog has been studying medieval sculpture at Leiden University for 32 years. Like a detective, she searches buildings, b...
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#MeToo: current theme, Medieval phenomenon 23 October 2018
Anyone who thinks that #MeToo is a new phenomenon, can think again. Subjects such as sexual intimidation, female self-defence and subjection to male d...
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The 2018 Teaching Prize for the Humanities 30 August 2018
Who will win this year’s Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Humanities? Who will the students honour with this coveted token of their appreciation? Read...
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Invisible but ever-present: female spies in the 17th century 06 July 2018
For a long time it was thought that there were few or no female spies in history. However, nothing could be further from the truth. In her book Invisi...
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The Tableau Vivant – Across Media, History, and Culture 30 November 2017
Stijn Bussels will attend the two-day conference on The Tableau Vivant – Across Media, History, and Culture at the Colombia University of New York. He...
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Nadine Akkerman elected member of the Young Academy 13 November 2017
Nadine Akkerman has deciphered the correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, and studied 17th-century spies. Her fascinating historiograph...
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From ent to orc: how Tolkien recycled medieval sources 06 June 2016
Besides being the author of such a classic work of literature as The Hobbit, Tolkien was also Professor of English Language and Literature in Oxford. ...