The library will be closed for external visitors the whole month of August. The academic staff will be back at the KNIR from 1 September.
11 maart 2024
12 februari 2024
The colloquium aims to bring together scholars working on pre-modern scientific/technical texts (broadly defined) to focus on the various questions surrounding (potential) non-written sources of written texts containing knowledge. In cases where no written source for...
14 februari 2023
This Colloquium looks into the materiality and mobility of small, portable devotional objects so central in Catholic devotion, such as crucifixes, blessed beads, images, rosaries, medals and the wax talismans known as Agnus Dei. Taking cue from the so-called material...
14 februari 2023
The rising temperature of controversies surrounding such issues as “cancel culture,” “cultural Marxism,” and “woke-ism” are arguably just the latest instance of the much longer history of socio-cultural divides that occasionally erupt into a full-blown “culture war.”...
22 februari 2022
How to present uncertain knowledge? What did, and what do, mapmakers do when they are not sure? This posed a large problem in early modern times, the so-called ‘age of exploration’. Where and how to insert whole new continents, disputed discoveries,...
