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Pieter Sijpersma Hans Wiegel
de biografie
In ‘Hans Wiegel’ beschrijft Pieter Sijpersma het roerige leven van een van de meest talentvolle én meest controversiële politici van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog: Hans Wiegel. Er zijn weinig politici die hun stempel zozeer op de vaderlandse politiek hebben gedrukt als hij. Zijn retorisch talent, zijn ‘gewonemensentaal’, zijn gevatheid, zijn vermogen om gecompliceerde onderwerpen tot hun essentie terug te brengen en zijn humor bezorgde Hans Wiegel al snel een grote aanhang. In 1967 kwam hij als 25-jarige...
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Nederlands | 840 pagina's (ePub2, 6,6 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2020
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Willem G. Weststeijn Russische literatuurgeschiedenis
Dit nieuwe, tweede deel van ‘Russische literatuurgeschiedenis’ van Willem Weststeijn laat zien dat de Russische literatuur ook na de groten een rijk aanbod kent. Met schrijvers als Poesjkin, Gogol, Toergenjev, Tolstoj, Dostojevski en Tsjechov heeft de Russische literatuur vanaf 1800 de eerste plaats in de wereld veroverd. En met vele andere auteurs als Boenin, Nabokov, Boelgakov, Pasternak, Achmatova, Mandelstam, Solzjenitsyn en Brodsky heeft het moderne Rusland vervolgens zijn grote literaire traditie...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2020
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Daniel Immerwahr Amerika buiten de Verenigde Staten
een koloniale geschiedenis
Geschiedenis van de imperialistische politiek van de Verenigde Staten sedert het eind van de negentiende eeuw, met name in de Filipijnen, andere overzeese territoria en legerbases over de gehele werreld.
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Nederlands | 536 pagina's (ePub2, 45 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2020
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John Milton John Milton, Epistolarum familiarium liber unus and Uncollected letters
John Milton holds an impressive place within the rich tradition of neo-Latin epistolography. His Epistolae Familiares and uncollected letters paint an invigorating portrait of the artist as a young man, offering insight into his reading programme, his views on education, friendship, poetry, his relations with continental literati, his blindness, and his role as Latin Secretary. This edition presents a modernised Latin text and a facing English translation, complemented by a detailed introduction...
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Latijn | Engels | PDF, 6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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Elma Drayer Witte schuld
over identiteitspolitiek
In ‘Witte schuld’ bespreekt Elma Drayer identiteitspolitiek in de mediawereld, literatuur, kunst en politiek. ‘In het huidig racismedebat zie ik te veel dat me te weinig bevalt en ik zou niet weten waarom ik daar als witte vrouw beleefd over zou moeten zwijgen.’ Sinds het racismedebat vanuit de Verenigde Staten overwaaide naar Nederland heeft Drayer het in columns en discussies becommentarieerd. Waarom slaat het debat zo aan? Wat is de rol van de sociale media? Ze schuwt de polemiek niet. Door haar...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2019
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W.F. Denslagen Historiografische introspecties
geschiedschrijver over geschiedschrijvers
Wim Denslagen (1946) was hoogleraar aan de universiteit van Utrecht en publiceerde onder meer Romantisch modernisme. Nostalgie in de monumentenzorg. Amsterdam (2004), Memories of Architecture. Architectural Heritage and Historiography in the Distant Past (2009), Beemden en bouwlanden, Het verdwijnende boerenlandschap (2011) en Observations on Urban Aesthetics. London, Paris and New York (2016). Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Nederlands | 187 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | U2pi, Voorburg | 2018
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Sid Lukkassen Avondland en identiteit
Terwijl de wereldpolitiek afkoerst op diepe conflicten (militair: Europa versus Rusland, economisch: het Westen versus China, religieus: Occident versus Islam) worden we nog steeds geregeerd door polderpolitici die uitblinken in pappen en nathouden. Tegelijkertijd groeit een generatie jongeren op die voelt dat de pluizige idealen waarmee zij zijn grootgebracht - het geloof in economische groei, culturele diversiteit en verheven noties van "soulmates" en romantiek - stuklopen op de keiharde realiteit...
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Nederlands | 274 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2017
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A Holocene prehistoric sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea area: the tree shelter
The prehistory of the Eastern Desert of Egypt is not well understood. A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter is an important contribution to our knowledge of the Epi-Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Predynastic occupation of the area. It presents the results of an excavation of a small rock shelter near Quseir, Egypt, which is one of the rare stratified sites in the Eastern Egyptian desert. The stratigraphic sequence starts around 8000 bp and continues until about...
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Engels | 104 pagina's (PDF, 22 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Isabelle Crevecoeur Étude anthropologique du squelette du Paléolithique supérieur de Nazlet Khater 2 (Égypte)
apport à la compréhension de la variabilité passée des hommes modernes
L'étude de l'origine, de la variabilité et du comportement des hommes anatomiquement modernes a fait l'objet de recherches intenses durant deux périodes distinctes de l'évolution humaines: celle des stades isotopiques 6 et 5e avec les plus anciens hommes modernes en Afrique et au Proche-Orient; et celle des stades isotopiques 2 et 1 avec l'expansion des hommes modernes dans toutes les parties du monde. Les résultats actuels des recherches en génétiques s'accordent pour dire que les populations...
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Frans | 318 pagina's (PDF, 85 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Science translated
Latin and vernacular translations of scientific treatises in medieval Europe
Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase....
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Engels | Frans | 478 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leiven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Minoan earthquakes
breaking the myth through interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean. Does the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete, Greece), the romanticized vision of the Cretan Bronze Age as an era of peaceful prosperity only interrupted by the catastrophic effects of natural disasters has captured the popular and scientific imagination. Its impact on the development of archaeology, archaeoseismology, and earthquake geology in the...
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Engels | 408 pagina's (PDF, 9,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Tom van der Meer Niet de kiezer is gek
Kritische analyse van de (vermeende) crisis in de democratie in Nederland, met een pleidooi voor vernieuwing van de politieke cultuur.
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Nederlands | 144 pagina's (ePub2, 0,4 MB) | Spectrum, Houten | 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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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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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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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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The early modern cultures of neo-Latin drama
The vitality and power of expression of Neo-Latin Drama. The essays in this collection all illustrate the vitality of Neo-Latin drama in early modern Europe, arising from its productive combination of classical models with deep-rooted vernacular traditions. While the plays were often composed in the context of a school or university setting, the dramatists seldom neglected the need to appeal to a broad audience, including non-Latinists. Yet the use of Latin, and the ambiguity of a plurivocal literary...
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Engels | 232 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Michiel Meeusen Plutarch's science of natural problems
a study with commentary on quaestiones naturales
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era. In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By...
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Engels | 556 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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