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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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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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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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Juan Maldonado Spanish humanism on the verge of the picaresque: Juan Maldonado's Ludus chartarum, Pastor bonus, and Bacchanalia
The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded,Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado's Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium similar to Vives' on the subject, entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia,...
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Latijn | Engels | 298 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Scottish Latin authors in print up to 1700
a short-title list
The first-ever bibliography of Scottish Latin authors in print. The work of the Latin writers of Scotland has suffered a neglect which its variety, copiousness, and intrinsic interest do not deserve. Their importance, and the importance of Latin as a literary language, is beginning to be recognized by scholars. Researchers from the universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews have now prepared the first-ever bibliography of Scottish Latin in print - unique both in its focus on the many works written in...
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Engels | 400 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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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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Herman van der Wusten | Virginie Mamadouh Geopolitiek
Wordingsgeschiedenis van de ontwikkeling en het gebruik van het begrip 'geopolitiek' in de internationale context.
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Nederlands | 130 pagina's (ePub2, 7,7 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2015
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Carol Leonnig | Philip Rucker Alleen ik kan dit
het laatste catastrofale jaar van Donald J. Trump
Waarom wilde president Donald Trump het leger inzetten tegen demonstranten van Black Lives Matter? Wat ging er mis bij de falende bestrijding van het coronavirus, waardoor meer dan een half miljoen Amerikanen omkwamen? Wie beïnvloedde Trump nadat hij weigerde zijn duidelijke verkiezingsnederlaag te erkennen en leugens verspreidde over verkiezingsfraude? Philip Rucker en Carol Leonnig onthullen met ongekende, verbluffende details hoe het er werkelijk aan toeging in het desastreuze laatste jaar van...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
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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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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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Medieval manuscripts in transition
tradition and creative recycling
Manuscripts constitute the source material par excellence for diverse academic disciplines. Art historians, philologists, historians, theologians, philosophers, book historians and even jurists encounter one another around the codex. The fact that such an encounter can be extremely fertile was demonstrated, during an international congress in Brussels on November 5-9, 2002. A record of the discussions can be found in this volume of the Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. The editors selected those lectures...
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Engels | Frans | 384 pagina's (PDF, 5,8 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, 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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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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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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A versatile gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing; studies offered to Luc van der Stockt on the occasion of his retirement
Essays on erudite versatility in Plutarch's works. Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober...
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Engels | 310 pagina's (PDF, 1,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Joop Bouma Slikken
hoe ziek is de farmaceutische industrie?
Analyse van de invloed van de farmaceutische industrie op alle niveaus van de gezondheidszorg.
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Nederlands | 500 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | Fosfor, [Nederland] | 2014
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Louis Hoeks 'In geouwehoer kun je niet wonen'
het leven van Jan Schaefer
‘In geouwehoer kun je niet wonen’ is de bekendste uitspraak van Jan Schaefer. De PvdA-politicus was bij leven een fenomeen en werd na zijn dood legendarisch. ‘Als je met hem over straat liep was het net of je naast Johan Cruijff liep. Iedereen kende hem,’ zei communicatieadviseur Dig Istha. De energieke banketbakker en buurtactivist veranderde als staatssecretaris en wethouder het aanzien van de Nederlandse steden. Hij blies oude wijken nieuw leven in en gaf buurtbewoners inspraak. Met zijn ongepolijste...
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Nederlands | 444 pagina's (ePub2, 9,1 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2017
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Theo D'haen | Hans Bertens Amerikaanse literatuur
een geschiedenis
Literatuurhistorisch overzicht van 1600 tot heden.
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Nederlands | 336 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Acco, Leuven | 2010
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Jan De Laender Het verdriet van Darwin
over de pijn en de troost van het rationalisme
Charles Darwins evolutietheorie dwingt ons te erkennen dat we bestaan zonder zin of reden, dat we zijn voortgebracht door een proces dat geen goedheid kent. Dit boosaardig proces schept bij middel van pijn en dood en het zorgt ervoor dat een diep egoïsme de kern vormt van al wat leeft. Het Heelal heeft ons voortgebracht, maar het is onverschillig voor ons lot. Het heeft ons niet gewenst en het bemint ons niet. Van God is al helemaal geen sprake! Dat is de diepe boodschap van Darwins theorie. De...
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Nederlands | 384 pagina's (ePub, 0,6 MB) | Acco, Leuven | 2010
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Isotopes in vitreous materials
For all archaeological artefactual evidence, the study of the provenance, production technology and trade of raw materials must be based on archaeometry. Whereas the study of the provenance and trade of stone and ceramics is already well advanced, this is not necessarily the case for ancient glass. The nature of the raw materials used and the geographical location of their transformation into artefacts often remain unclear. Currently, these questions are addressed by the use of radiogenic isotope...
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Engels | 166 pagina's (PDF, 11 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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