Love Lessons from a Dutch Civil Servant Dirc Potter treats the dos and don’ts of love in a didactic poem of 11,000 verses. The theory is illustrated with some sixty examples: love histories taken from the Bible and the work of the Latin poet Ovid. André Bouwman • April 01, 2014
Spiritual Contemplations at Leiden How to attain a truly perfect life Guest author • December 31, 2013
Leiden lecture notes from the 18th century Viri Celeberrimi Tiberii Hemsterhuis Dictata in Antiquitates Græcas Guest author • December 31, 2013
Jan van der Meulen, victim of the Spanish Fury in Antwerp ‘the cries and lamentations of the people are so loud that one’s heart grieves’ Guest author • December 31, 2013
Signed in blood by P.C. Hooft On 27 August 1627 Pieter Cornelisz Hooft wrote a heartrending letter to Heleonora Hellemans, the widow of Jan Baptist Bartolotti van den Heuvel. Guest author • November 05, 2013
Huygens in Leiden: the house rules of landlord Paravicino Constantijn Huygens received the regulations in a letter dated 26 May 1645. Were they disputed by his sons Constantijn Jr and Christiaan, who were students in Leiden and rented rooms at Paravicino’s? André Bouwman • May 23, 2013
A two century-old eye-witness account from Katwijk 'Katwijk fishery-, mariner- and other words and locutions'. Guest author • October 26, 2012
Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria: classical public relations Eloquence and speaking with facility need to be acquired by study and hard work. Jef Schaeps • April 27, 2012
