The Bastion of Liberty Leiden University Today and Yesterday

• Glavni avtor: Otterspeer, Willem (auth)
• Format: Elektronski Book Chapter
• Jezik: angleščina
• Izdano: Leiden University Press 2008
• Serija: LUP Academic
• Teme: History; geschiedenis; history; geography; auxiliary disciplines; Leiden; Leiden University; Netherlands
• Online dostop: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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...