The Asian Library of Leiden University houses the world renowned and extensive Asian collections. This includes the largest collection on Indonesia worldwide and some of the foremost collections on South and Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea.

"Voyage of Discovery" contains more than twenty essays of academics, curators and authors on various aspects on their experience with the Leiden collections.

Richly illustrated and showcasing twenty-five treasures from the Asian Library, such as uni...

In dit rijk geïllustreerd werk beschrijft Van Baarsel de geschiedenis van de Leidse medische faculteit.

Begin 19de eeuw stond de Leidse medische faculteit er slecht voor. Hoogleraren gaven nog colleges in het Latijn en haalden hun inspiratie uit de geschriften van grote voorgangers als Boerhaave. Bloedzuigers hadden een voorname plaats in het behandelarsenaal.

Maar door de grote epidemieën – cholera, tuberculose – en vooral door buitenlands voorbeeld veranderde dat. Gedreven artsen en o...

Leiden University was founded as an institution that would embody a particular set of academic ethics that sought to improve society through the acquisition of knowledge. In this book, author Willem Otterspeer draws on the idea of Leiden as 'a “bastion of liberty”' and proposes that concepts such as 'equilibrium' and 'scale' are key to understanding the university as an institution, ultimately showing how universities are a form of social capital, one of Western society’s answers to the...