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Jacopo Cellini Universalism and liberation
Italian catholic culture and the idea of international community, 1963-1978
The changing attitude of Catholic culture towards modernity. After decades of a problematic, if not plainly hostile, approach to modernity by Catholic culture, the 1960s marked the beginning of a new era. As the Church employed a more positive approach to the world, voices in the Catholic milieu embraced a radical perspective, channeling the need for social justice for the poor and the oppressed. The alternative and complementary world views of 'universalism' and 'liberation' would drive the engagement...
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Engels | 272 pagina's (PDF, 1,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Koen Lagae | Saartje Vanden Borre | Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse Herinneringen aan de Holocaust
geschiedenis & collectieve herinnering in gespannen verhouding
Eerste volume in de nieuwe reeks 'Historisch denken'. Samenlevingen hebben een diepe drang om te herdenken en te herinneren. Zeker vandaag is het verleden alomtegenwoordig, en is er sprake van een ware memory boom. Collectieve herinnering is echter niet neutraal. Ze wordt ingezet in het nastreven van allerlei politieke, sociale, culturele en morele doelen. De noodzaak van een kritische houding tegenover herinnering dringt zich dan ook op. Herinneringen aan de Holocaust richt zich op de educatie over...
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Nederlands | 112 pagina's (PDF, 0,5 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Between text and tradition
Pietro d’Abano and the reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata physica in the Middle Ages
New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations. The commentary of Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source for the investigation of the complex relationship between text, translation, and commentary in a non-curricular part of the corpus Aristotelicum. As the eight articles in this volume show, the study of Pietro's commentary not only provides valuable insights into...
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Engels | Frans | 280 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Kadoc Religious institutes and catholic culture in 19th- en 20th-century Europe
A broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in social and cultural practices This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious institutes, men and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities of communication in different European countries (England, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Low Countries, the Nordic Countries, Switzerland). The articles focus on social and cultural history by comparing both discourses and cultural and social practices, as well...
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Engels | 216 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Jacques Meerman Kleine geschiedenis van de hutspot
Jacques Meerman komt met een heerlijk boek over Nederlands bekendste gerecht: hutspot. Meerman schreef eerder het veelgeprezen Kleine geschiedenis van de Nederlandse keuken. Hutspot is geen klein bier. Er zijn boeken en schilderijen aan gewijd. Het gerecht is nog steeds een rijke bron voor creativiteit in recepten. En menig patriottisch hart gaat er sneller van kloppen. Hutspot symboliseert dan ook het ontstaan van de Nederlandse natie. Het gerecht is onlosmakelijk verbonden met het Leids Ontzet...
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Nederlands | 102 pagina's (ePub2, 7,2 MB) | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2017
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Gwenola Graff Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I - Nagada II
nouvelle approche sémiologique de l'iconographie prédynastique
Ce travail propose une nouvelle approche de l'iconographie prédynastique égyptienne. Il s'agit d'étudier les vases à décorations complexes de la culture de Nagada. Le travail présenté ici regroupe pour la première fois le plus vaste ensemble possible de ces objets. L'ensemble fournit près de 650 documents, dont un certain nombre d'inédits. Le décor de ces vases a été analysé selon les principes de la sémiologie. Cette étude s'inscrit dans un contexte historique d'une période préparatoire...
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Frans | 432 pagina's (PDF, 17 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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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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A. Doedens | Marijke van de Vrugt Moord en doodslag
16 verjaarde zaken
Bespreking van zestien historische moorden, van de moord op farao Ramses III in 1155 v.Chr. tot de dodelijke aanslag op Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.
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Nederlands | 192 pagina's (ePub2, 8,9 MB) | WalburgPers Algemeen, Zutphen | 2020
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Bart Haeck Na de kater
hoe we ons geloof in de Europese Unie verliezen
Journalistieke analyse van de ontgoocheling over de Europese samenwerking door de euro-crisis, de financiële teloorgang van Griekenland en de massa-immigratie.
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Nederlands | 186 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Polis, Kalmthout | 2017
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Rolf Falter De geboorte van Europa
een geschiedenis zonder einde
Gedetailleerde beschrijving van de eerste vijftien jaar (1945-1960) van het ontstaan van de Europese samenwerking.
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Nederlands | 606 pagina's (ePub2, 6,3 MB) | Polis, Kalmthout | 2017
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Ruben Mantels Geleerd in de tropen
Leuven, Congo & de wetenschap, 1885-1960
Van de dagen van Leopold II tot de dag dat koning Boudewijn Congo onafhankelijk verklaarde, was de Leuvense universiteit actief in de kolonie. Hoogleraren en onderzoekers ondernamen tropische expedities en volgden de veranderende kennis van Congo in Leuven op. Belgische studenten voegden zich bij de ontdekkingsreizen van Stanley, namen deel aan de exploitatie van Katanga of sympathiseerden met de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd. In die strijd speelde Leuven een voortrekkersrol met de Lovanium-universiteit...
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Nederlands | PDF | 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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Paganism in the Middle Ages
threat and fascination
Interdisciplinary study of pagan culture from late antiquity to the emergent Renaissance. In this volume the persistence, resurgence, threat, fascination, and repression of various forms of pagan culture are studied in an interdisciplinary perspective from late antiquity to the emergent Renaissance. Contributions deal with the survival of pagan beliefs and practices, as well as with the Christianization of pagan rural populations or with the different strategies of oppression of pagan beliefs. The...
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niet gecodeerde talen | 250 pagina's (PDF, 11 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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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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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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