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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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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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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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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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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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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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Katrin Unterreiner Sisi
sprookje & werkelijkheid
In 1898 reageerde de wereld geschokt toen keizerin Elisabeth van Oostenrijk, beter bekend als 'Sisi', werd vermoord. Door de moord en de opmerkelijke levenswijze van Elisabeth vormde zich vervolgens een mythe rond de keizerin. Tegenwoordig kennen de meeste mensen Sisi alleen maar van de romantische films uit de jaren '50 met Romy Schneider in de hoofdrol. Welk jong meisje heeft er nu niet van gedroomd om ooit een 'Sissi-jurk' te dragen? De historische Sisi vertoont echter weinig gelijkenis met de...
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Nederlands | 112 pagina's (ePub, 48 MB) | Uitgeverij Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2016
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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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Stacy Schiff Cleopatra
een vrouwenleven
Biografie van de Egyptische koningin (69-30 voor Christus).
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Nederlands | ePub2, 6,7 MB | Ambo, Amsterdam | 2011
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Arnout van Cruyningen De koning van Hispanje
Filips II, verguisd en geëerd
In 'Filips II' beschrijft Arnout van Cruyningen het leven van deze ongeliefde heerser. In 2020 is het 465 jaar geleden dat Filips II Heer der Nederlanden werd. Zijn vader, Karel V, had zijn idealen niet waargemaakt en trad af. De Nederlandse adel verheugde zich op Filips’ komst, maar de stemming sloeg snel om. In de geschiedenisboeken wordt Filips II niet erg geflatteerd beschreven. Van Cruyningen brengt de geschiedschrijving rond Filips II in België en Nederland in katholieke en protestantse kringen...
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Nederlands | 131 pagina's (ePub2, 18 MB) | Omniboek, Utrecht | 2021
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Jan Van den Berghe De stoeterij van Europa
de Coburgs en hun klim naar de macht
Geschiedenis van de wijze waarop de vorsten van het onbeduidende Duitse vorstendom Coburg via een uitgekiende huwelijkspolitiek verbonden raakten aan de belangrijkste Europese vorstenhuizen.
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Nederlands | 551 pagina's (ePub, 5,6 MB) | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2015
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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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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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