Zoekfilters
› Archeologie (21)
› Geschiedenis algemeen (18)
› Buitenlandse talen, le... (15)
» Toon alle opties (15)
› Literatuurgeschiedenis... (8)
› Cultuur- en mentalitei... (6)
› Moderne geschiedenis (... (5)
› Mediëvistiek (4)
› Politicologie (4)
› Mens en maatschappij a... (3)
› Nieuwe geschiedenis (1... (3)
› Fotografie, film, vide... (2)
› Islam (2)
› Nederlandse taal- en l... (2)
› Oosterse religies waar... (2)
› Strafrecht en procesre... (2)
› Taal en cultuur algeme... (2)
› Vaderlandse geschieden... (2)
Resultaten (134)
morgen verzonden
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture Vernacular Manuscript Culture 1000-1500
2018 || Paperback || Erik Kwakkel || Leiden University Press
This volume presents six essays devoted to the practices, habits, and preferences of scribes making manuscripts in their native tongue. Despite the dominance of Latin in medieval written culture, vernacular traditions started to develop in Europe in the eleventh century. Focusing on French, Frisian, Icelandic, Italian, Middle High German, and Old English examples, these essays discuss the connectivity of books originating in the same linguistic space.
Given that authors, translators, and rea...
morgen verzonden
Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Reconstructing the Settled Landscape of the Cyclades
the Islands of Paros and Naxos during the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
2017 || Paperback || Konstantinos Roussos || Leiden University Press
The Islands of Paros and Naxos during the Late Antique and Early Byzantine Centuries
The aim of this book is to offer a fresh approach to the history and archaeology of the Cyclades in Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Early Middle Ages in light of current archaeological investigations. It is an attempt to interpret human-environmental interaction in order to "read" the relationship between islands, settlements, landscapes and seascapes in the context of the diverse and highly interactive Medit...
morgen verzonden
Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism
Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands
|| Paperback || Rick Honings || Leiden University Press
Although there has always been a fascination for famous people, the invention of modern celebrity culture goes back to the nineteenth century. During Romanticism the position of the author changed, but, with the phenomenon of the fan and associated fandom coming into existence, also that of the public.
In "Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism" Dutch literary celebrity culture is analysed and embedded in the international discourse on this subject. This book supplies the Dutch dynamic to th...
morgen verzonden
Autumntide of the Middle Ages
2020 || Hardcover || Johan Huizinga || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
A new English translation of Huizinga's Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen, which is celebrating its centenary and still ranks as one of the most perceptive and influential analyses of the medieval period. It is a classic study of life, culture and thought in fourteenth and fifteenth century France and the Netherlands.
This is a new and unabridged translation of Huizinga’s text and aims to capture its importance as a landmark of historical scholarship as well as remarkable work of literature. The t...
morgen verzonden
Realm between Empires
The Second Dutch Atlantic, 1680-1815
2018 || Hardcover || Wim Klooster e.a. || Leiden University Press
Wim Klooster and Gert Oostindie present a fresh look at the Dutch Atlantic in the period following the imperial moment of the seventeenth century. This epoch (1680–1815), the authors argue, marked a distinct and significant era in which Dutch military power declined and Dutch colonies began to chart a more autonomous path.
The loss of Brazil and New Netherland were twin blows to Dutch imperial pretensions. Yet the Dutch Atlantic hardly faded into insignificance. Instead, the influence of th...
morgen verzonden
The Invasion of the South
Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra
2021 || Hardcover || Willem Remmelink || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). The present book completes the trilogy of English translations of the sections in the Senshi Sōsho series on the Japanese operations against the former Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). The first volume (The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies, 2015) details the army o...
morgen verzonden
Lawmaking in Dutch Sri Lanka
Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society
2022 || Paperback || Nadeera Rupesinghe || Leiden University Press
Navigating Pluralities marks a break in understanding the history of Roman-Dutch law in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, it challenges socio-legal studies that concentrate on major jurisdictional conflicts alone, emphasizing the lived experience of everyday practices of judicial forums. It uncovers the navigation of plural practices in the Landraad, a judicial forum set up by the Dutch East India Company in seventeenth-century Sri Lanka. A choice of laws came into play in that forum, that choice ...
morgen verzonden
Japan’s Practice of International Law
2022 || Paperback || Hidehisa “Harry” Horinouchi || Leiden University Press
Diplomacy is a series of crises, and the navigational beacon for a nation is international law. This book is a collection of articles on six selected international legal issues concerning Japan. It addresses various issues, including self-defence, post-war legal issues, chemical weapons, the law of the sea, consular immunities, and hijacking. It is a legal documentary through which the reader can look into the minds of Japanese officials challenged by one crisis after another.
As a coherent wh...
morgen verzonden
The United States and South Asia from the Age of Empire to Decolonization
A History of Entanglements
2022 || Hardcover || Harald Fischer-Tiné e.a. || Leiden University Press
morgen verzonden
Father of Persian Verse / druk 1
rudaki and his Poetry
2010 || Paperback || S. Tabatabai e.a. || Leiden University Press
Abu Abdollâh' Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki (c. 880 CE-941 CE) was a poet to the Samanid court which ruled much of Khorâsân (northeastern Persia) from its seat in Bukhara.
He is widely regarded as "the father of Persian poetry, for he was the first major poet to write in New Persian language, following the Arab conquest in the seventh and eighth centuries, which established Islam as the official religion, and made Arabic the predominant literary language in Persian-speaking lands for some two...