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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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"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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Margot Dijkgraaf In de voetsporen van mijn grootvader
‘In de voetsporen van mijn grootvader’ van Margot Dijkgraaf is een innemende kleine familiegeschiedenis en een ode aan de mythe van de Amazones. Op een dag opent Margot Dijkgraaf thuis een koffertje dat ze decennialang onder haar moeders bed heeft zien liggen. Ze vindt er een met de hand geschreven artikel in van haar grootvader, over Penthesilea, heldin in de gelijknamige tragedie van de Duitse schrijver Heinrich von Kleist. Ruim een eeuw voordat Dijkgraaf een boek publiceerde over rebelse vrouwen...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
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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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Xenophon Atheniensis | Plutarchus De Spartaanse maatschappij
Een zakelijk politiek verslag door Xenofon (ca. 430-354) van de Spartaanse instellingen op basis van de wetten van Lycurgus; voorts het leven van Lycurgus en diens wetten geschreven door Plutarchus (ca. 45-120).
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Nederlands | 121 pagina's (ePub, 1,5 MB) | CHAIRONEIA, Leeuwarden | 2014
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Frank Westerman Ingenieurs van de ziel
Ingenieurs van de ziel legt de worsteling bloot van schrijvers in totalitaire tijden. Het is een fascinerende zoektocht naar de fundamenten van een van de meest bizarre experimenten uit de geschiedenis van de mensheid: het Sovjet-systeem. Reizend in het nu en het verleden ontrafelt Frank Westerman de tragische levensloop van de romanticus Konstantin Paustovski en diens tijdgenoten. Hij maakt de lezer deelgenoot van de geestdrift van de Russische Revolutie, wanneer de kunst én de werkelijkheid op...
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Nederlands | 260 pagina's (ePub, 1 MB) | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2013
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Hans Renders | Nigel Hamilton Het ABC van de biografie
Biografieën, we lezen ze graag. Ze vertellen de levensverhalen van meer of minder beroemde mensen en bieden de lezer veelal verrassende inzichten over de plaatsen en de tijd waarin die personen leefden. Biografieën zijn er in vele soorten en maten. Dit boek vertelt daar meer over. Het is onderverdeeld in diverse lemma's over de hedendaagse biografie. Behandeld worden onder meer genres, invalshoeken, bekende biografen en thema's. Onder de A vindt de lezer 'Amerika', 'Autobiografie' en 'Autoriseren'....
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Nederlands | 244 pagina's (ePub2, 4,3 MB) | AUP, Amsterdam | 2018
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De twintig boeken die ons denken veranderden
Essays over twintig boeken, verschenen na 1945, die perfect de tijdgeest weergeven of die de opvattingen van mensen diepgaand hebben beïnvloed.
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Nederlands | 208 pagina's (ePub2, 2,3 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2015
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Aristotle's "Problemata" in different times and tongues
The present volume contains a collection of papers on the reception of Aristotle's Problemata, a multifaceted text asking various questions about medical, scientific or everyday topics. This text is one of the most neglected Aristotelian treatises, because of its heterogeneous character and its so-called 'inauthenticity'. It has been the subject of a complex transmission. In ancient times, Aristotle's text has been augmented and adapted, while still other authors composed similar collections of Problemata....
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Engels | Frans | 326 pagina's (PDF, 4,7 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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Appianus De burgeroorlogen
133-35 v.Chr.
Geschiedenis van de Romeinse burgeroorlogen in de eerste eeuw voor Christus, die het einde van de republiek en het begin van de keizertijd inluidden.
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Nederlands | 455 pagina's (ePub2, 1,4 MB) | Atheneaeum - Polak & van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2017
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John Milton John Milton, Epistolarum familiarium liber unus and Uncollected letters
John Milton holds an impressive place within the rich tradition of neo-Latin epistolography. His Epistolae Familiares and uncollected letters paint an invigorating portrait of the artist as a young man, offering insight into his reading programme, his views on education, friendship, poetry, his relations with continental literati, his blindness, and his role as Latin Secretary. This edition presents a modernised Latin text and a facing English translation, complemented by a detailed introduction...
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Latijn | Engels | PDF, 6 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2019
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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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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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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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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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