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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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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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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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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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Dit Is Waarom Mensen Op Twitter Zitten
Nederland in 500 en enige tweets
Verzameling humoristische tweets.
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Nederlands | 101 pagina's (ePub2, 0,5 MB) | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2017
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Frouke Arns Eigen terrein
gedichten
Stadsgedichten over Nijmegen voor liefhebbers van lichte poëzie.
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Nederlands | ePub2, 0,8 MB | Uitgeverij Marmer, Baarn | 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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Gerrit Komrij De lange oren van Midas
het begin van een schrijverschap
Dagboekfragmenten over de periode dat Gerrit Komrij in Kreta was aan het begin van zijn schrijverscarrière, gecombineerd met een nooit uitgegeven roman.
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Nederlands | ePub2, 3 MB | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2017
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Plinius Mijn landhuizen
brieven over Romeinse villa's
Brieven van de Romeinse senator en grootgrondbezitter (61/62-112 n.Chr.) over zijn landhuizen, wonen, werken en vakanties.
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Nederlands | 82 pagina's (ePub2, 0,7 MB) | Athenaeum-Polak & van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2017
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Stefan Hertmans Antigone in Molenbeek
Nouria wil haar in Syrië gesneuvelde broer de begrafenis geven waar hij volgens haar recht op heeft, maar de overheid heeft zijn lichaam in beslag genomen en wil dat niet vrijgeven.
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Nederlands | ePub2 | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 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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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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"Lors est ce jour grant joie nee"
essais de langue et de littérature françaises du Moyen Âge
This volume gathers eight contributions regarding the French medieval language and literature. They are a selection of papers presented during a colloquium organized in honor of Prof. Emeritus Willy Van Hoecke, whose passion for French diachronic linguistics and medieval literature has driven him to develop some techniques for critical text edition, applied to the oeuvre of Baudouin de Condé, techniques which he also used for the edition of Jean d'Antioche's Rectorique de Marc Tulles Cyceron. The...
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Frans | 214 pagina's (PDF, 21 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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David Sedaris Gestolen voorwerpen
dagboeken (1977-2002)
Dagboeknotities van de Amerikaanse schrijver.
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Nederlands | 375 pagina's (ePub2, 2,5 MB) | Lebowski, Amsterdam | 2017
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Michael Minneboo Mijn vriend Spider-Man
superhelden, geeks en fancultuur
Achtergrondinformatie over de superheld Spiderman oftewel Peter Parker, met aandacht voor onder andere de fancultuur en de ontwikkelingen in de verhaallijnen van deze Amerikaanse comic.
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Nederlands | 243 pagina's (ePub2, 5,1 MB) | Q, Amsterdam | 2017
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Maarten 't Hart De wereld van Maarten 't Hart
de beste stukken over natuur, literatuur, religie en muziek
Bloemlezing van 25 essays uit tien eerder verschenen bundels en 4 nieuwe bijdragen over terugkerende thema's in het werk van Maarten 't Hart, zoals muziek, natuur, literatuur en religie.
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Nederlands | 331 pagina's (ePub2, 1,6 MB) | De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam | 2017
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