929 search results for “early modern english literature” in the Public website
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Counter-Discours in Zimbabwean Literature
Counter-Discourse in Zimbabwean Literature is a study of specific aspects of counter-discursive Zimbabwean narratives in English. In discussing the selected texts, my thesis is based on Terdiman’s (1989) the postcolonial concept of counter-discourse.
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A Stairway to Heaven: Daoist Self-Cultivation in Early Modern China
Paul van Enckevort defended his thesis on 3 June 2020.
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The Heirs Of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India
This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research…
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Imperial Legacies in Early-Modern South India. Dynastic Politics in the Vijayanagara Successor States
This research deals with the royal houses of the Vijayanagara Empire and four of its successor states: Ikkeri, Tanjavur (under both the Nayaka and Bhonsle rulers), Madurai, and Ramnad. This study is thus concerned with dynastic politics and imperial legacies in south India between the 14th and 18th…
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English
The Academic Language Centre provides a wide range of English courses. The courses differ with regard to level, content and frequency.
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Survey of Literature
The Survey of Literature is published twice a year (February and August).
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Older Dutch Literature (MA)
In the master’s programme in Older Dutch literature at Leiden University you will study Dutch literature from the Middle Ages (1100-1550) until the Golden Age and Enlightenment (1550-1800). During the programme you will develop a vision on the value of the Dutch literary heritage.
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
j.melis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tommie van Wanrooij
Faculty of Humanities
t.van.wanrooij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2626
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Centre for Art, Literature and Law (CALL)
The center studies the many ways in which issues of law and justice are dealt with in art and literature with a focus on liminal issues and cases. These are issues and cases where law comes to the limits of what it is capable of dealing with and art and literature explore the implications of what is…
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Wit and Wisdom in Classical Arabic Literature
This book contains the first three Leiden-Aramco Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture delivered by Petra Sijpesteijn, James E. Montgomery and Geert Jan van Gelder.
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Video clips Literature Review
The Academic Language Centre has developed 4 video clips on Literature Review. Watch them below for a good start to your studies!
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Arts, Literature and Media
Are you thinking about studying Arts, Literature and Media? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Wim Tigges
Faculty of Humanities
w.tigges@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Precarious Modernities
Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
m.h.porck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1611
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Dissemination: Hindustani Identifications at the Nexus of Tradition and Modernity
An interdisciplinary cultural analysis of how the Hindustani double migration informs contemporary processes of identification and problematises the juxtaposition of tradition and modernity.
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Historicising Art and Literature
Historicising Art and Literature is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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Italian Literature and Culture (MA)
This MA programme offers an excellent qualification in Italian literature and culture on an advanced level through lectures and seminars led by specialists in the field.
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French Literature and Culture (MA)
Develop your knowledge of French and Francophone literary works and genres with the Master’s programme in French Literature and Culture at Leiden University.
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The figure of Orestes in Greek literature
This project will study the cultural meaning of the mythological figure of Orestes within the ancient Greek imagination, as it emerges from various literary sources from the archaic and classical periods.
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German Literature and Culture (MA)
The master’s programme in German Literature and Culture at Leiden University offers the largest number of German-language master’s courses in the Netherlands and covers the fields of literary and cultural studies from the Middle Ages to the present.
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- English 6
- English 5
- English 4
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Tale of One City: Actors of Globalization versus Bakufu Hegemony in Early Modern Nagasaki, c. 1571-1800
On 24 October 2023 Jurre Knoest successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Μodern Theory, Literature and the Arts. Vol. 1: From the Enlightenment to the Turn of the Twentieth
Barbarism: from the 18th century to the present.
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EXALT: Excavating Archaeological Literature
We will use Artificial Intelligence to make an intelligent, multilingual search engine for archaeological texts, which will enable new discoveries about the human past.
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Phraseology in Children's Literature
On the 25th of October, Suze Anja Verkade successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Suze Anja on this achievement!
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Asian Modernities and Traditions
The research profile ‘Asian Modernities and Traditions’ (AMT) aims to raise the strength and visibility of research, teaching and dissemination on Asian studies at Leiden University.
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Modern Languages (MA)
In Modern Languages specialisation you will explore the structure, acquisition, history and use of one or more of these five languages in depth: Chinese, English, French, German or Italian.
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Modern European Philosophy (MA)
The master's programme in Modern European Philosophy at Leiden University focuses on the philosophical reflection on human nature and culture, both from a systematic and a historical perspective.
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Modern dance basics
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Leonard Blussé van Oud Alblas
Faculty of Humanities
j.l.blusse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2766
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Neanderthals and modern humans
This project focuses on the study of Neanderthal and early modern human behavior, primarily on the basis of stone tools, fauna and spatial patterns
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Modern Drug Discovery
How are new drugs developed? This question is central to the Minor Modern Drug Discovery (MDD), which covers the entire trajectory from disease to drug molecule and vice versa. The various research groups involved offer a complementary and interdisciplinary perspective by connecting the diverse subjects…
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Frontiers of Modern Physics
This is the physics summer school of Leiden University. It is part of the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION). The summer school is intended for Bachelor (BSc) students in physics. It covers topics from quantum matter and optics, to biological & soft matter physics and cosmology and theoretical physics.…
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Old English Renewed
Tracing Transitional English in the Twelfth Century
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Language Courses English
The Academic Language Centre Leiden offers English language courses at different levels, intensive summer courses, tailor-made language training and various courses such as academic English, legal English, and financial English. More information can be found here >
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English Language and Linguistics
English Language and Linguistics at Leiden University focuses on English language usage and linguistics around the world, including in countries where English is spoken as a second language or as part of a mixed language.
- English Language and Culture
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Proficiency in English
For admission to the Graduate School you will be asked to demonstrate you proficiency in English by means of an IELTS or TOEFL test. The certificates must be recent (not older than two years).
- Writing Academic English
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Clear English Pronunciation
Clear English Pronunciation provides students with the tools to effectively communicate in English without centring solely on native-speaker pronunciation models.
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Into the cold: The adaptive role of pyrotechnology among the earliest modern humans in Europe, ca. 45,000–20,000 years ago
The routine assumption that Upper Palaeolithic early modern humans in Europe were regular fire users who produced fire at will has never been tested against the archaeological record. Utilizing literature, database and microwear analytical approaches, this project seeks to establish the role and forms…
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Imagology in the Arubian Literature
Neo-Baroque construction and deconstruction of the concepts of paradise in fiction.
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Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond (MA)
In Leiden University’s master’s programme Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond you will develop your knowledge of the interactive relationship between literature and society, focusing on key political and social issues from a transnational perspective.
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Memory before Modernity
This synthesis brings together strands developed in the four studies, sets out memories of the Revolt and presents the Low Countries as a case study.