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G.J. Dorleijn | Dirk De Geest | Pieter Verstraeten Literatuur
Wetenschappelijk verantwoorde uitleg over het fenomeen 'literatuur' en het literaire bedrijf.
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Nederlands | 176 pagina's (ePub2, 2,4 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2017
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Pieter Steinz Made in Europe
de kunst die ons continent bindt
Culturele gids met 208 lemma’s over kunstenaars, stromingen, kunstwerken en romanhelden die tot het pan-Europees cultuurgoed behoren.
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Nederlands | 625 pagina's (ePub, 18 MB) | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2014
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Kristoffer Hatteland Endresen Het varken
het verhaal van een dier van vlees en bloed
In Het varken verkent Hatteland Endresen de vele facetten van dit bijzondere dier. Springend van de biologie naar de archeologie en van de filosofie naar medische wetenschappen laat hij zien waarom varkens méér zijn dan een stuk vlees: waarom het het waard is ze eens in de ogen te kijken. De relatie tussen varkens en mensen zit vol tegenstrijdigheden. Varkens worden al eeuwen geassocieerd met viezigheid en ‘onreinheid’, maar zijn ondertussen wel de meest gegeten diersoort ter wereld. Ze zijn genetisch...
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Nederlands | ePub2, 4,1 MB | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
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Susan Bauer Het verhaal van de westerse wetenschap
van Aristoteles tot de oerknaltheorie
‘Het verhaal van de wetenschap’ is een leeswijzer die tekst en uitleg biedt bij de belangrijkste, oorspronkelijke teksten die ons denken over de wereld, de kosmos en de mens hebben vormgegeven en veranderd. In 28 beknopte hoofdstukken neemt topauteur Susan Wise Bauer de lezer mee van de vroegste wetenschappelijke teksten van Hippocrates, Plato en Aristoteles tot aan twintigste-eeuwse klassiekers in het domein van geologie, biologie en kosmologie, met onder andere verwijzingen naar de werken van Einstein,...
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Nederlands | 338 pagina's (ePub2, 3,4 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2015
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Enno van der Eerden Ascona
bezield paradijs
Geschiedenis van de utopische kunstenaarskolonie in het Zwitserse Ascona aan het begin van de 20e eeuw.
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Nederlands | 376 pagina's (ePub, 9,3 MB) | Bas Lubberhuizen, Amsterdam | 2011
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Arnout Brouwers Rodina
tussen lethargie en revolutie
Journalistieke reportages over het leven van gewone Russen in het tegenwoordige Rusland en de gebieden onder Russische invloedssfeer.
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Nederlands | ePub2, 3,6 MB | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2018
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A new sense of the past
the scholarship of Biondo Flavio 1392–1463
Reappraisal of the pioneering humanist scholar Biondo Flavio. During his lifetime the historian and antiquarian Biondo Flavio (1392- 1463) struggled to obtain recognition as a major contributor to the humanistic movement of the fifteenth century. Throughout the Renaissance, fellow Italian scholars far too often condemned rather than endorsed his scholarly works. His troublesome career and mixed reputation among his peers stand in stark contrast with the highly innovative character of his learning,...
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Engels | Italiaans | 288 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Guillaume Budé La correspondance de Guillaume Budé et Juan Luis Vives
Témoignage intéressant sur la vie intellectuelle et la vie tout court des grands humanistes. Le présent recueil entend apporter une nouvelle contribution à la connaissance des écrits des grands humanistes du 15ème au 16ème siècle. Certes, le volume consacré à l'échange de lettres entre Budé et Vives est mince: il ne comporte que dix lettres au total. Malgré leur petit nombre, ces lettres apportent indéniablement, à l'instar des lettres publiées précédemment, un témoignage intéressant...
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Frans | 160 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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V. Neckebrouck Denken over religie
antropologische theorie en godsdienst
Overzicht van de belangrijkste denkers vanaf de Klassieke Oudheid tot omstreeks 1860 die een bijdrage hebben geleverd aan de studie van de antropologie van de religie.
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Nederlands | 449 pagina's (PDF, 3,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2021
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Matthew Syed Denk als een rebel
waarom diversiteit de sleutel is tot succes
Aan de hand van voorbeelden laat de auteur zien hoe collectieve intelligentie en diversiteit belangrijk zijn bij het oplossen van complexe problemen.
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Nederlands | 296 pagina's (ePub2, 6,6 MB) | Luitingh Sijthoff, Amsterdam | 2020
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Virtues for the people
aspects of Plutarchan ethics
Plutarch of Chaeronea, Platonist, polymath, and prolific writer, was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered people's true needs. Although these writings on practical ethics illustrate in various ways Plutarch's authorial talents and raise many challenging questions (regarding their overall structure, content, purpose, and underlying philosophical...
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niet gecodeerde talen | 320 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Terence Tunberg De rationibus quibus homines docti artem Latine colloquendi et ex tempore dicendi saeculis XVI et XVII coluerunt
Study of conversational Latin and ex tempore expression in Latin. The use of Latin for conversation and ex tempore discourse was a significant element in the culture of learned people in the humanist age and the early modern era. This book explores that phenomenon and the considerable amount of evidence pertaining to it in the primary sources written in the period. The author takes into account the use of spoken Latin both inside and outside the academic world. Examining disputes over pronunciation...
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Latijn | 140 pagina's (PDF, 1,3 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus
First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia. Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576-1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian 'inversions' of the Classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus's pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance...
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Engels | Latijn | Duits | 292 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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"Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?"
dedicating Latin works and motets in the sixteenth century; proceedings of the International conference held at the Academia Belgica, Rome, 18-20 August 2005
During the sixteenth century, the traditional act of dedicating a text took on a new meaning due to the wider dissemination of the printed book. As the dedication and other paratexts thus became an almost indispensable part of the publication, they merit careful examination by those who study the presentation and impact of any printed work in its context. Paratexts bridge the gap between the outside World of the reading public and the enclosed world of the book, and often present biographical information...
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Engels | Frans | 334 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Neo-Latin philology: old tradition, new approaches
proceedings of a conference held at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, 26-27 October 2010
Material Philology and the study of Renaissance Latin literature. Neo-Latin Philology: Old Tradition, New Approaches explores the question whether the approaches developed in the so-called New or Material Philology can be applied to the study of Renaissance Latin literature. Two contributions in this volume focus on theoretical issues, the first presenting a critical assessment of the debate on New Philology in the 1990s, the second providing some guidelines for researchers of the materiality of...
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Engels | 208 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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John Barclay Icon animorum or The mirror of minds
Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. In this essay from 1614 the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and mores of his European contemporaries. He derives the sources of an individual's peculiarities of behavior and temperament from the 'genius' - the individual character created by each person's upbringing, time of life, and profession. Barclay likewise describes each nation's genius, its national character, and provides some of...
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Engels | Latijn | 380 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Simon Verdegem Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades
story, text and moralism
At the beginning of the second century AD, Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the...
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Engels | 499 pagina's (PDF, 5,5 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Geert Roskam A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo
Plutarch's De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch's polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical...
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Engels | 279 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, [Leuven] | 2017
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Geert Roskam Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum
an interpretation with commentary
The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Plato's ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher's political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato's ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch's short...
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Engels | 252 pagina's (PDF, 3,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Andrea Alciati Andreae Alciati contra vitam monasticam epistula
Criticism of monastic life by one of Europe's major Renaissance figures. In his letter Against Monastic Life (1514-17) Andrea Alciato, an Italian jurist and writer famous for his Emblemata, urges his friend Bernardus Mattius to reconsider his choice of monastic life. Alciato makes his argument by criticizing religious superstition, the Church's hierarchy, and monastic practices, particularly the Franciscans' hypocrisy, wealth, and divisiveness. Instead, he defends a stoic, civic humanism. Due to...
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Latijn | Engels | 144 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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