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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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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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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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"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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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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Pedro G. Ferreira De volmaakte theorie
honderd jaar genieën en de strijd om de relativiteitstheorie
Historisch overzicht van de ontwikkeling van de relativiteitstheorie door Einstein en de wijze waarop deze in de loop van honderd jaar is aanvaard, aangepast of bestreden.
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Nederlands | ePub, 1,2 MB | Singel Uitgeverijen, Amsterdam | 2014
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Adam Higginbotham Nacht in Tsjernobyl
geschiedenis van de grootste nucleaire ramp ooit
Beschrijving van de ramp met de kerncentrale in Tsjernobyl in 1986 en het verband daarvan met het uiteenvallen van de Sovjet-Unie in 1991.
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Nederlands | ePub2, 4,2 MB | Ambo|Anthos, Amsterdam | 2019
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Sander Koenen Droomvlucht
het verhaal van astronaut André Kuipers
De aantrekkingskracht van gewichtloosheid was te groot. Op 21 december 2011 vertrok astronaut André Kuipers voor een tweede, lange missie naar de ruimte. Aan boord van het internationale ruimtestation ISS was hij ingenieur, arts, wetenschapper, docent en ambassadeur. Maar hij is ook echtgenoot, vader van vier kinderen en nog altijd een dromer. Met de juiste muziek, fotos van vroeger en het uitzicht op de aarde probeerde hij het gevoel dat hij als kind had weer terug te krijgen: de jongensdroom van...
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Nederlands | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 6 MB) | National Geographic, Amsterdam | 2012
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Elma Drayer Witte schuld
over identiteitspolitiek
In ‘Witte schuld’ bespreekt Elma Drayer identiteitspolitiek in de mediawereld, literatuur, kunst en politiek. ‘In het huidig racismedebat zie ik te veel dat me te weinig bevalt en ik zou niet weten waarom ik daar als witte vrouw beleefd over zou moeten zwijgen.’ Sinds het racismedebat vanuit de Verenigde Staten overwaaide naar Nederland heeft Drayer het in columns en discussies becommentarieerd. Waarom slaat het debat zo aan? Wat is de rol van de sociale media? Ze schuwt de polemiek niet. Door haar...
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Nederlands | ePub2 | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2019
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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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Kristoffer Hatteland Endresen Het varken
het verhaal van een dier van vlees en bloed
In Het varken verkent Hatteland Endresen de vele facetten van dit bijzondere dier. Springend van de biologie naar de archeologie en van de filosofie naar medische wetenschappen laat hij zien waarom varkens méér zijn dan een stuk vlees: waarom het het waard is ze eens in de ogen te kijken. De relatie tussen varkens en mensen zit vol tegenstrijdigheden. Varkens worden al eeuwen geassocieerd met viezigheid en ‘onreinheid’, maar zijn ondertussen wel de meest gegeten diersoort ter wereld. Ze zijn genetisch...
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Nederlands | ePub2, 4,1 MB | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2021
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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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