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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 ...
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 ...
The Open Door to Hidden Paganism
Abraham Rogerius’s Account of South Indian Hinduism (1651): Critical Introduction, Dutch Text, and Annotated English Translation
2025 || Paperback || Benjamin Leathley || Leiden University Press
This book presents the first-ever English translation of 'The Open Door to Hidden Paganism', one of the earliest and most detailed studies of South Indian Hinduism. Written in 1651 by Abraham Rogerius, a Dutch East India Company clergyman and missionary, it offers an unexpectedly balanced account of the customs and traditions of the South Indian Brahmins. This made it a cornerstone of early European Indology.
In addition to the Dutch original, this edition includes a full English translation...