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The Historiography of Landscape Research on Crete / druk 1

2008 || Paperback || Marina Gkiasta || Leiden University Press

Analyse van geschiedschrijving van archeologisch landschapsonderzoek op Kreta

In 'The Historiography of Landscape Research' on Crete evalueert Marina Gkiasta de geschiedschrijving van een eeuw archeologisch landschapsonderzoek op het Griekse eiland Kreta. Sinds het begin van deze discipline (1900) wordt een aantal relevante projecten uitgelicht en grondig geanalyseerd. Gkiasta benoemd vijf ‘tradities’ ofwel manieren van aanpak binnen onderzoek naar oude landschappen. Ze toont aan dat deze tr...

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Sharia incorporated / druk 1

a Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present

2012 || Paperback || Leiden University Press

The aim of Sharia Incorporated is to provide unbiased and contextual information about a topic that has of late been hijacked by politics in the West. Sharia Incorporated is an ambitious study of the development and incorporation of sharia and Islamic and customary law traditions into national legal, political, and social state structures. Sharia Incorporated also explores the sensitive topic of 'Western' human rights and rule of law standards in a Muslim world. This book provides an in-depth...

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The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt / druk 1

new insights into the Fayum Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic

2010 || Paperback || N. Shirai || Leiden University Press

The Archaeology of the First Farmer-Herders in Egypt explores how and why farming and herding started in the Fayum, which is a large oasis with a permanent lake in the Egyptian Western Desert. Noriyuki Shirai's research on lithic artefacts used by the Epipalaeolithic hunter-fishers and Neolithic famer-herders in the Fayum gives a clue as to the mobility and residential strategy of the Fayum people and their time and labour investments in tool production. The Neolitic famer-herders ( 6th C.B.C...

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Embodiments of Evil: Gog and Magog

interdisciplinary Studies of the "Other" in Literature & Internet Texts

2014 || Paperback || A.A. Seyed-Gohrab e.a. || Leiden University Press

Gog en Magog, als archetypen van het kwaad, spelen sinds hun verschijning in de Bijbel en de Koran een belangrijke rol. Van plattegronden tot literatuur en teksten, van middeleeuws Europa tot de Byzantijnse en Arabische wereld, van Berber tot Perzische en Indonesische tradities, en tot in het heden met teksten op internet: steeds weer komen deze monsterlijke wezens naar voren.

Deze 'Bijbelse' figuren worden in gezien als aankondigers van grote veranderingen, en worden afgebeeld met hondenhoof...

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The Rubáiyát of Khayyám / druk 1

an Updated Bibliography

|| Paperback || Jos Coumans || Leiden University Press

This book fills a gap by providing a new selection and description of almost 900 editions of the world-famous Persian quatrains: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. This is the first bibliography since the first Rubáiyát bibliography by A.G. Potter, published in 1929.

Omar Khayyám lived in the 11th Century. A Persian homo universalis, he was a mathematician, scientist, philosopher, astronomer and poet. He is believed to have written 200 to 600 Rubáiyát (quatrains) in Persian. His Rubáiyát ...

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The Ruby in the Dust / druk 1

poetry and history of the Indian Padmâvat by Sufi Poet Muhammad Jâyasî

2011 || Paperback || T. de Bruijn || Leiden University Press

The Padmavat (1540 CE) by the Indian Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi is a classic of pre-modern Indian literature. It relates how the Rajput king Ratansen of Chitor finds and marries the beautiful princess Padmavati, and how the sultan Alauddin Khilji, on hearing of her beauty, besieges Chitor in a fruitless attempt to capture her.

'The Ruby in the Dust' presents a reading of Padmavat that challenges existing interpretations of Jayasi’s work and describes how its semantic polyphony reflects t...

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Newton and the Netherlands

how Newton's ideas entered the Continent

2012 || Paperback || N. Akkerman e.a. || Leiden University Press

In the course of the eighteenth century, Newton's ideas (in different guises and interpretations) became a veritable hype in Dutch society. In Newton & the Netherlands Newton's sudden success is analyzed in great depth and put into a new perspective. Deze titel is onderdeel van de OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org. Ad Maas is curator at the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, the Netherlands.|Eric Jorink is researcher at the Huygens Institute for Netherlands History (Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and ...

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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...

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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...

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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...