December 2025 – Hermes

A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)

Dries Nijs (KU Leuven) Leiden University library houses an extensive collection of printed disputationes. These broadsheets and pamphlets present the theses that university students — the respondentes — defended against opponentes, under the supervision of a professor acting as praeses. This corpus extends from shortly after the founding of Leiden University (1575) into the 20thContinue reading “A Woman Writing New Ancient Greek Poetry for a Leiden Disputation (1686)”