In een vroeg zelfportret uit 1628 heeft Rembrandt een Wolf-Cut kapsel en een gouden oorbel in zijn linkeroor. Tegenwoordig zou deze jonge schilder zich wellicht als queer of ‘questioning’ identificeren, en hij was zeker niet de enige. Seks, Drugs en Rock 'n' Roll in Rembrandts Tijd beschrijft hoe welvarende jonge mannen, zoals Rembrandt, volwassen werden tijdens de economische bloei van de vroege zeventiende eeuw. Op basis van nieuw onderzoek illustreert historicus Benjamin Roberts in dez...

When the Allied Forces arrived in the Netherlands after Operation Market Garden, the country’s long-awaited liberation from National Socialist occupation finally came in the summer of 1945. With freedom reclaimed, a wave of joy and hope swept through the nation, finding its most powerful expression in the stirring liberation songs that resonated across the land. These songs, an evocative transatlantic soundtrack of freedom, captured the spirit of the time through music, lyrics, and dance, c...

The yearbook offers an international, interdisciplinary, innovative platform for scholarly research in the field of contextual Biblical interpretation. Embracing contextuality as a catalyst for interpretation, the Yearbook is dedicated to fostering interpretations of Biblical texts.

The identification of ceramic imports within prehistoric and historic assemblages has long been the primary indicator for identifying connections between different sites and regions. Yet this has fostered a presence/absence diagnosis for contact between different communities. Approaches such as post-colonial perspectives and network analysis, which focus on the nature of the connections, are now beginning to offer more meaningful ways of considering past interactions. These approaches can bri...