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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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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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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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"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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De 21 romans die onze blik veranderden
Korte bespreking van 21 romans uit de periode 1945-2000 die van invloed zijn geweest op de Westerse samenleving.
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Nederlands | 158 pagina's (ePub2, 2,3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
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Carla Muijsert-van Blitterswijk Nieuwetijdskinderen
het intuïtieve kind in gezin, onderwijs en hulpverlening
Aanwijzingen voor ouders en opvoeders hoe om te gaan met hypergevoelige en paranormaal begaafde kinderen.
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Nederlands | 156 pagina's (ePub2, 0,9 MB) | AnkhHermes, Utrecht | 2013
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E. Zürcher Het verre Oosten
oog in oog met het China van Mao
Dagboek en brieven, geschreven door een Leidse hoogleraar geschiedenis van Oost-Azië tijdens een reis door communistisch China in 1964.
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Nederlands | 122 pagina's (ePub2, 6,8 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2016
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Pedro Moura Visualising small traumas
contemporary Portuguese comics at the intersection of everyday trauma
Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal's borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and society. Following the experience of the financial crisis of the past decades and its impact on social policies, access to and rules of public discourse, and civil strife, comics have questioned what constitutes...
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Engels | 237 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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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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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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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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Frank de Glas De regiekamer van de literatuur
een eeuw Meulenhoff 1895-2000
Documentatie over de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse uitgeverij Meulenhoff.
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Nederlands | 200 pagina's (ePub, 38 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2016
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Carolyne Larrington De noordse mythen
goden en helden van het oude Scandinavië
Inleiding in de Scandinavische mythologie.
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Nederlands | 138 pagina's (ePub2, 5,6 MB) | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2017
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Bart Van Loo Parijs retour
literaire reisgids voor Frankrijk
Een majestueus boek over Frankrijk, Franse literatuur en Fransen. Bart Van Loo is een van de grootste francofielen van de Lage Landen. Hij gaat op zoek naar de ziel van de Franse cultuur. Een onontbeerlijk reportageboek voor wie Frankrijk wil leren kennen. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Nederlands | 414 pagina's (ePub2, 7,4 MB) | De Bezige Bij, Antwerpen | 2010
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Justus Lipsius Monita et exempla politica
In 17th-century intellectual life, the ideas of the Renaissance humanist Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) were omnipresent. The publication of his Politica in 1589 had made Lipsius' name as an original and controversial political thinker. The sequel, the Monita et exempla politica (Political admonitions and examples), published in 1605, was meant as an illustration of Lipsius political thought as expounded in the Politica. Its aim was to offer concrete models of behavior for rulers against the background...
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Engels | Latijn | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2022
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The Congo in Flemish literature
an anthology of Flemish prose on the Congo, 1870s - 1990s
This book presents the first anthology of Flemish prose on the Congo, the former colony of Belgium, in English translation. Because of the Dutch language barrier, Flemish literature on the Congo has traditionally remained inaccessible to and thus neglected by international scholarship, as opposed to French or English prose on this part of the African continent. That this particular perspective has thus far remained underexposed, or even disregarded, is all the more regrettable in light of the fact...
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Engels | PDF, 4,3 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
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Ger Beukenkamp Schrijven voor film, toneel en televisie
Aansprekende voorbeelden en boeiende praktijkanekdotes laten zien welke technieken en inzichten je nodig hebt bij het schrijven van drama, comedy en andere vormen van toneel, scenario en filmscript. Theatermaker en scenarioschrijver Ger Beukenkamp behandelt in dit boek onder andere het schrijven van dialogen, de strijd tussen vorm en inhoud, stijl, structuur en genre. Dit handboek is een uitgebreide en geactualiseerde versie van Beukenkamps De verborgen schrijver. Toegevoegd is onder andere een hoofdstuk...
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Nederlands | 256 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Augustus, Amsterdam | 2009
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I. Sluiter Socrates
Leermeester van Plato, ter dood veroordeeld vanwege zijn filosofische ideeën, uitvinder van de Socratische methode. Ineke Sluiter verkent het leven en het gedachtegoed van een van de meest legendarische filosofen uit de geschiedenis. Elementaire Deeltjes is een serie boekjes van AUP die kennis toegankelijk maakt voor een breed publiek. Het is de manier om snel kennis op te doen over onderwerpen die je interesseren. Experts nemen je mee op een ontdekkingsreis waarbij elk thema in de meest beknopte...
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Nederlands | ePub2, 4,5 MB | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2014
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