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Leiden University Press (100)
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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The Necklace of the Pleiades / druk 1
24 Essays on Persian Literature, Culture and Religion
2010 || Paperback || F. Lewis e.a. || Leiden University Press
The Necklace of the Pleiades is een boek over Perzische literatuur, cultuur en religie door onderzoekers uit de hele wereld. Dit boek weerspiegelt de stand zaken op het gebied van de Perzische literaire studies en is niet alleen van wezenlijk belang voor onderzoekers van de Iranese cultuur, geschiedenis en religies, maar zeker ook voor onderzoekers op het gebied van het Midden-Oosten en Zuid-Aziatische studies.
The topics of the 24 essays range from the Persian Alexander romance, to Ferdow...
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Turning over a new leaf / druk 1
change and development in the medieval book
2012 || Paperback || Rosamond McKitterick e.a. || Leiden University Press
Wat kunnen we concluderen over de lezer aan de hand van een onderzoek naar de lay-out van een middeleeuwse tekst? Mogen we aan de hand van een collectie van een bibliotheek conclusies trekken over de cultuur waarin deze collectie werd samengesteld?
Gedurende de middeleeuwen waren manuscripten voor boeken voortdurend onderhevig aan veranderingen. Deze kwamen voort uit nieuwe inzichten in bijvoorbeeld het gebruik van koppen bij teksten of de toepassing van hoofdstuknummering.
Met de focus op de...
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Conflict and development in iranian film / druk 1
2013 || Paperback || Kamran Talattof e.a. || Leiden University Press
Dit deel in de serie Iranian Studies onderzoekt de filosofische onderbouwing en filmische technieken die kenmerkend zijn voor Iraanse film. Het laat zien hoe thema's als martelaarschap en oorlog, gender en sociaal beleid in Iraanse cinema worden benaderd, en hoe de regisseurs ze met behulp van een verscheidenheid aan technieken behandelen. Er wordt een overzicht gegeven van de poëtische en mystieke dimensies van Abbas Kiarostami's films. Daarnaast wordt beschreven wat de effecten van de Isla...
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Applying shari'a in the west / druk 1
facts, fears and the future of Islamic rules on family relations in the west
2013 || Paperback || Maurits S. Berger || Leiden University Press
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Archaeological studies Leiden University (ASLU) Troubled Waters
developing a New Approach to Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage Management in Sub-Saharan Africa
2017 || Paperback || Jonathan Sharfman || Leiden University Press
This volume of the ASLU series examines perspectives on maritime and underwater cultural heritage (MUCH) in southern Africa and proposes new management approaches to advance protection and public engagement. By redefining the maritime historical narratives in countries that have predominantly interpreted their maritime past through colonial shipwrecks, it is possible to create an environment in which stakeholders become active participants in heritage management. The application of a broad ma...
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Cape Conflict
Protest and Political Alliances in a Dutch Settlement
2019 || Paperback || Teun Baartman || Leiden University Press
In the historiography of the period of Dutch rule in the Cape of Good Hope, from 1652 until 1795, Cape burghers are represented as the perpetual underdogs bristling against the rule of a restrictive Dutch East India Company (VOC). But was this relationship really so antagonistic?
The author places Cape colonial society in the wider context of the Dutch Republic and, in doing so, compares the political structures, institutions and dynamics of the Republic and its overseas settlement. He shows ...