The Bastion of Liberty Leiden University Today and Yesterday

• Hoofdauteur: Otterspeer, Willem (auth)
• Formaat: Elektronisch Hoofdstuk
• Taal: Engels
• Gepubliceerd in: Leiden University Press 2008
• Reeks: LUP Academic
• Onderwerpen: History; geschiedenis; history; geography; auxiliary disciplines; Leiden; Leiden University; Netherlands
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Leiden University was conceived as the embodiment of specifically academic ethics which sought to improve society through a cumulative process of knowledge acquisition. Drawing on the idea of Leiden as a 'bastion of liberty', the renowned historian Willem Otterspeer proposes that concepts...