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Prophets, Poets & Scholars
Exploring the Collections of the Middle Eastern Library at Leiden University
2024 || Hardcover || Arnoud Vrolijk e.a. || Leiden University Press
The year 2024 marks the opening of the new Middle Eastern Library of Leiden University, a purpose-built facility to serve the needs of all those who engage in the study of the Middle East and North Africa from the dawn of history to the present day. To celebrate the occasion, more than 40 authors from Leiden and beyond have contributed to this special volume on the library’s rich and multifaceted Oriental holdings.
Topics range from the Ancient Near East to the material and conservational ...
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Cold War Triangle
2017 || Paperback || Renilde Loeckx || Lipsius Leuven
The extraordinary story of scientists in East and West combatting HIV
A small group of scientists were doggedly working in the field of antiviral treatments when the AIDS epidemic struck. Faced with one of the grand challenges of modern biology of the twentieth century, scientists worked across the political divide of the Cold War to produce a new class of antivirals. Their molecules were developed by a Californian start-up together with teams of scientists at the Rega Institute of KU Leuven ...
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Strategic Imaginations
Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture
2021 || Paperback || Anke Gilleir e.a. || Leuven University Press
What is the gender of political power? Since the beginning of political thought, rule has been a male prerogative in European imagination. This is of course not to say that there never were women sovereigns. In-depth studies of women sovereigns have grown considerably in number in the past three decades and have added substantially to our understanding of the complexities of their rule of power.
Yet what is often obscured by such in-depth analyses is the fact that all women rulers throughout ...