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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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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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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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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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Willem G. Weststeijn Russische literatuurgeschiedenis
In deze heruitgave van Willem Weststeijns ‘Russische literatuurgeschiedenis’ wordt de opkomst van ’s werelds meest vooraanstaande literaire gebieden uitvoerig besproken. De Russische literatuur behoort tot de grootste ter wereld. Eigenlijk is dat een wonder, want tot de negentiende eeuw stond ze geheel in de schaduw van andere Europese literaturen, of liever gezegd: ze bestond eigenlijk niet. Vanaf 1800 werd dat anders en nog geen honderd jaar nadien, na Poesjkin, Gogol, Toergenjev, Tolstoj, Dostojevski...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Uitgeverij 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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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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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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Cordula Rooijendijk Waterwolven
een geschiedenis van stormvloeden, dijkenbouwers en droogmakers
Geschiedenis van de strijd tegen het water in Nederland, aan de hand van levensbeschrijvingen van personen die daarin een belangrijke rol speelden.
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Nederlands | 335 pagina's (ePub2, 19 MB) | Olympus, Amsterdam | 2015
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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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Caro Verbeek Een kleine cultuurgeschiedenis van de (grote) neus
In Een kleine cultuurgeschiedenis van de (grote) neus neemt Verbeek de lezer mee op een reis langs opvallende neuzen in de westerse kunst en cultuur, van Michelangelo, Rembrandt en Gogol tot Barbie, Barbra Streisand en #sideprofileselfie. Caro Verbeek laat zien hoezeer ons esthetische oordeel afhangt van culturele omstandigheden waarvan we ons vaak nauwelijks bewust zijn. Maar bovenal is het een lofzang op de neus, in al zijn vormen en afmetingen. Als student kunstgeschiedenis kwam Caro Verbeek in...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
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Una lingua morta per letterature vive
il dibattito sul Latino come lingua letteraria in età moderna e contemporanea; atti del convegno internazionale di studi (roma, 10-12 dicembre 2015)
La straordinaria polifonia di lingue che caratterizza le letterature nazionali di età moderna è ormai un dato acquisito nelle più aggiornate ricostruzioni di storia letteraria. Meno nota è forse la dialettica vivace che innerva questo delicato equilibrio, nel quale - almeno in Italia - si inseriscono a pieno titolo i dialetti. I lavori raccolti in questo volume, che trae origine da un convegno organizzato dal Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Neulateinische Studien, si propongono di fare il punto...
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Italiaans | Duits | PDF, 2,5 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
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Frederike Doppenberg 'De Arbeiderspers moest blijven marcheeren'
een uitgeverij in oorlogstijd
In mei 2009 bestond Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers tachtig jaar. Sinds haar oprichting in 1929 heeft de uitgeverij heel wat stormen doorstaan. Maar de hevigste storm vond wel tijdens de Duitse bezetting plaats. Kort na de capitulatie bezette Meinoud Rost van Tonningen `De Rode Burcht . Hij had opdracht gekregen De Arbeiderspers om te vormen van een socialistisch tot een nationaal-socialistisch platform, naar eigen zeggen om `het ware volksche socialisme aan de arbeider terug te geven. De nieuwe leiding...
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Nederlands | ePub, 2 MB | Arbeiderspers, Utrecht | 2011
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Maarten Asscher H2Olland
op zoek naar de bronnen van Nederland
Historische artikelen en wetenswaardigheden over Nederland en het water.
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Nederlands | ePub2, 1,2 MB | Augustus, Amsterdam | 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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