Introduction Although the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University on principle welcomes any interesting topic of research, Javanese literature must have been quite out of the ordinary even for this open-minded Institute. Nevertheless, it accepted the proposal that was submitte...
Java’s literary culture and religious pluralism have long attracted academic attention and debate. The religious transformations and changes that accommodated first Indic and later Islamic models over the centuries shaped a distinctive social and cultural milieu in which religious practices and unde...
Jakl Jiri. Yumi Sugahara & Willem van der Molen (éd.), Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts, Tokyo, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Javanese Studies 5), 2018.. In: Bulletin de l'Ecole française d'Extrême-Ori...
A land overflowing with milk and honey : Sastradarma's Description of Batavia, 1867-1869 Willem van der Molen Abstract : Travelogues appeared during the beginning of modern Javanese literature i.e. from mid-19th century, concentrating on noteworthy facts from the visible world as in Candranegara's L...
Acri Andrea. Editing and Translating the Old Javanese Kakavin Rāmāyaṇa: Hendrik Kern, Rāmāyaṇa. The story of Rāma and Sītā in Old Javanese. Romanized Edition by Willem van der Molen, Tokyo, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Javanes...
This article takes up the question of writing supports, the physical media on which texts were recorded on the island of Java before paper and printing were introduced, with special focus on the western region and the Old Sundanese tradition. In the past, two types of indigenous writing materials pr...
This article takes up the question of writing supports, the physical media on which texts were recorded on the island of Java before paper and printing were introduced, with special focus on the western region and the Old Sundanese tradition. In the past, two types of indigenous writing materials pr...
