2,038 search results for “roman economy” in the Public website
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Roman Gentrification
PhD defence
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Rens Tacoma wins Research Prize Italian Studies Working Group
Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Group for the best scholarly publication in the field of Italy Studies in Dutch or Flemish academia.
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DiGiuseppe & Kleinberg, ‘Economics, security, and individual-level preferences for trade agreements’
Citizens’s attitudes towards trade are not only about the (perceived) economic effect. Commerce also has a variety of security implications. Employing an original experiment, political scientists Matthew DiGiuseppe (Leiden University) and Katja Kleinberg (Binghamton University) demonstrate that security…
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Difficult message for policymakers from two Leiden reports on circular economy
You should start working now, and the positive results will only be seen long after your term has expired. That is just about the worst thing you can say to politicians and policymakers. Yet that is exactly the message of two recent reports on sustainable resource use from the Centre for Environmental…
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Research
Enduring influence of Roman law
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Indonesia, conducting research on the sustainable development of the economy
A splendid milestone after seven years of collaborative research on the sustainable development of the Indonesian economy. Professor of Industrial Ecology Arnold Tukker has been appointed as a guest professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Universitas Padjadjaran (UNPAD) in the Indonesian…
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Moralising Misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance
Research on the morality of life insurance. What issues are raised when insurance companies define responsibility and solidarity? Has insurance changed since the crisis of 2007?
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Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
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on NPO Radio 1 about the consequences of labour migration for the economy and society
The European Commission sees increased labour migration as a solution to the growing personnel shortages, but the Dutch Labour Inspectorate argues that this is not a tenable business model. Professor of Economics Olaf van Vliet discusses the advantages and disadvantages of labour migration for the economy…
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D'Erman, Schure & Verdun, Economic and Financial Governance in the European Union after a Decade of Economic and Political Crises
Introducing five papers about of the impact of crises on the governance, decision-making, and institutional design of the Euro Area, political scientists Valerie D'Erman (University of Victoria, Canada), Paul Schure (University of Victoria, Canada) and Amy Verdun (Leiden University) summarise the 'lessons…
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The impact of Rome on cult places and religious practices in ancient Italy, BICS Supplement 132, London 2015
This publication of the School of Advanced Study of the University of London is one of the outcomes of the Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization project and the Colonial Rural Networks project (NWO, Dr. T.D. Stek). The volume, edited by Tesse Stek and prof. Gert-Jan Burgers of the Free University Amsterdam,…
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Meet postdoc Ana Zora Maspoli: ‘I came to Leiden to find a new way to look at the dilemma of Romanisation’
Looking for a different approach in the ongoing discussions on the ethereal matter of Romanisation, Ana Zora Maspoli joined Miguel John Versluys’ research group as a postdoc guest researcher. While she has been active in our Faculty since February 2022, you may not have met her yet due to the Covid-19…
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Richard Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
r.jansen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2932
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Michael McCabe III
Faculteit Archeologie
m.d.mccabe.iii@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Youri Cremers
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
y.e.m.cremers@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
i.c.huliselan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1167
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Keys to Rome
Shining a new light on the Roman world
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Spatial patterns in landscape archaeology
This PhD project develops and applies a GIS procedure to use legacy survey data in settlement pattern analysis. As part of the research by the LERC project (NWO, Leiden University, KNIR), legacy data produced by surveys in central and southern Italy are examined in a comparative framework to investigate…
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Hellenistische Rechtsfiguren in het Romeins Recht
In what way did Hellenistic legal institutions concerning secured credit influence Roman law?
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Bouwen om te Blijven
Roman Nijmegen is not only the largest archaeological micro-region in the Netherlands, but also one of the most extensively excavated settlement complexes of the Roman period north of the Alps.
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TRAC 2008
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference Amsterdam 2008
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Design for the Future: Wicked Environmental Problems in Sustainability and Health
How do we approach education that facilitates creative confidence for students that leads to innovative solutions to society’s present day and future sustainability challenges? This education research project tackles a sustainability dilemma faced by households in everyday life viz.
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The LAPP in the High Level Debate ‘Can The Blue Economy Save Our Ocean?’ in the European Parliament
On Wednesday 16th of May, 2018, two student researchers of the LAPP, Hanna Leisti and Heidi Kaarto, had an opportunity to take part in the High Level Debate ‘Can the Blue Economy Save Our Ocean?’. The event was organised by the Sky and WWF in the premises of the European Parliament in Brussels with…
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A macro level assessment of material circularity
A sustainable resource management is an essential aspect to satisfy the current human needs without compromising the needs of future generations.
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Reinventing 'The Invention of Tradition'?
Indigenous Pasts and the Roman Present
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Fertility and fontanels: women’s knowledge of medicinal plants for reproductive health and childcare in western Africa
Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets, Co-promotor: T.R. van Andel
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Voorburg-Arentsburg
In this publication the results of the analyses of the Roman harbour of Voorburg-Arentsburg (NL) are presented. This fully inclusive and integrated study of more than 1000 pages is published in two volumes. The publication is written in Dutch, but has got an extensive synthesis/summary in English.
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World Archaeology
The researchers in the World Archaeology department of the Faculty of Archaeology concentrate on a range of different periods and regions: from humanity’s origins to the Middle Ages and the modern age, and from Asia to South America.
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Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis
Proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Isis Studies, Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 13-15, 2011
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Aesernia Colonial Landscape Project (Molise)
The Aesernia Colonial Landscape project investigates ancient settlement patterns and dynamics around modern Isernia in Molise (Italy), the Latin colony of Aesernia (founded 263 BC). It consists of intensive systematic field survey in the territory of the colony, combined with remote sensing and geoprospection…
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The indivisibility of pledge and hypothec
What are the historical roots of the indivisibility of pledge and hypothec?
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Hans-Jan van Kralingen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.van.kralingen@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7841
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
e.koops@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7527
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Letty ten Harkel
Faculteit Archeologie
a.t.ten.harkel@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Alain Wijffels
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.a.wijffels@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
c.e.smith@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7733
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Pop-up Exhibition Roman Clohting
Exhibition
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Innovating objects
The impact of global connections and the formation of the Roman Empire (ca. 200-30 BC)
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Goedereede-Oude Oostdijk
Jasper de Bruin, Guus Besuijen, Hans Siemons & Jeroen van Zoolingen (2012). De romeinse nederzetting bij het tegenwoordige Goedereede heeft waarschijnlijk een belangrijke functie gehad in de overslag en distributie van diverse goederen, waaronder keramiek en voedingsgewassen. De opgraving van deze nederzetting…
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The Saint-Servatius complex in Maastricht
The Vrijthof excavations (1969-1970)
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Exploring hidden villages in colonial and non-colonial landscapes
A project to explore the configuration of different types of settlement and its role in the evolution of landscape, both in pre-Roman times and in the so-called Colonial landscape. We used several techniques of field survey, pottery classification and other non-invasive approaches to the archaeological…
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Spatial patterns in landscape archaeology (publication)
In several Mediterranean regions archaeological sites have been mapped by fieldwalking surveys, producing large amounts of data. These legacy site-based survey data represent an important resource to study ancient settlement organization. Methodological procedures are necessary to cope with the limits…
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Zwammerdam boats harbour ‘wealth of knowledge’
Leiden University is participating in a project to reassemble Roman vessels from between 80 - 200 AD. The 'Zwammerdam ships' are already world famous in the world of archaeology, and guest researcher Tom Hazenberg hopes to extend this fame beyond its academic boundaries.
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Research
The conquest by Rome brought profound changes to large parts of Europe. Unprecedented infrastructural works such as roads and harbours were created, towns sprang up, a ribbon of fortresses was laid out along the frontiers and there is a vast increase in material culture to inform us about the lives…
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Classics (research) (MA)
The Classics Research Master, a specialization of the Classics and Ancient Civilizations programme at Leiden University, gives you the opportunity to study the Greek and Roman world with a focus on Greek and Latin language and literature.
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Classics and Ancient Civilizations (research) (MA)
The Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research) master's at Leiden University covers the entire range of present-day research on the civilisations of Greece and Rome, Egypt and the Ancient Near East.
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Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome. Rhetoric, Criticism and Historiography
Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Augustan Rome: Greek culture in the Roman world.
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Visual Style and Constructing Identity in the Hellenistic World
Located in the small Kingdom of Commagene at the upper Euphrates, the late Hellenistic monument of Nemrud Daǧ (c. 50 BC) has been undeservedly neglected by scholars
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Alexandria the Cosmopolis
A global perspective
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Introducing: Paul Kloeg
Paul Kloeg is a PhD student in the ERC granted research project 'An Empire of 2000 Cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empire', directed by Luuk De Ligt and John Bintliff (Archaeology).