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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 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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Pieter Sijpersma Hans Wiegel
de biografie
In ‘Hans Wiegel’ beschrijft Pieter Sijpersma het roerige leven van een van de meest talentvolle én meest controversiële politici van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog: Hans Wiegel. Er zijn weinig politici die hun stempel zozeer op de vaderlandse politiek hebben gedrukt als hij. Zijn retorisch talent, zijn ‘gewonemensentaal’, zijn gevatheid, zijn vermogen om gecompliceerde onderwerpen tot hun essentie terug te brengen en zijn humor bezorgde Hans Wiegel al snel een grote aanhang. In 1967 kwam hij als 25-jarige...
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Nederlands | 840 pagina's (ePub2, 6,6 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2020
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Theo D'haen | Hans Bertens Amerikaanse literatuur
een geschiedenis
Literatuurhistorisch overzicht van 1600 tot heden.
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Nederlands | 336 pagina's (ePub, 1,4 MB) | Acco, Leuven | 2010
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Louis Hoeks 'In geouwehoer kun je niet wonen'
het leven van Jan Schaefer
‘In geouwehoer kun je niet wonen’ is de bekendste uitspraak van Jan Schaefer. De PvdA-politicus was bij leven een fenomeen en werd na zijn dood legendarisch. ‘Als je met hem over straat liep was het net of je naast Johan Cruijff liep. Iedereen kende hem,’ zei communicatieadviseur Dig Istha. De energieke banketbakker en buurtactivist veranderde als staatssecretaris en wethouder het aanzien van de Nederlandse steden. Hij blies oude wijken nieuw leven in en gaf buurtbewoners inspraak. Met zijn ongepolijste...
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Nederlands | 444 pagina's (ePub2, 9,1 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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Mark Deckers Alles behouden
de Oorlogsdagboeken van de Bibliotheek Deventer
Dagboekaantekeningen van enkele medewerksters van de openbare bibliotheek in Deventer over het bibliotheekwerk in de laatste maanden van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
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Nederlands | 80 pagina's (ePub2, 8,8 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2020
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R.A. Coutinho Epidemieën en pandemieën
Overzicht van het ontstaan en de bestrijding van epidemieën in heden en verleden.
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Nederlands | 110 pagina's (ePub2, 1,7 MB) | Athenaeum, Amsterdam | 2020
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Rob Hartmans Geestdrift met verstand
geschiedenis van De Groene Amsterdammer van 1877 tot nu
Overzicht van de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse politiek geëngageerde weekblad 'De Groene Amsterdammer' in de periode 1877 tot 2020.
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Nederlands | 656 pagina's (ePub2) | Spectrum, Amsterdam | 2020
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Gerard Termorshuizen | Coen van 't Veer Een groots en meeslepend leven
Dominique Berretty, Indisch persmagnaat
Biografie van de Nederlands-Indische persmagnaat (1891-1934).
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Nederlands | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 11 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2020
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Martin Šimek De vuurvliegjes achterna
een vlucht naar de vrijheid
Autobiografisch verslag over de vlucht in 1968 van de schrijver uit Tsjechoslowakije.
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Nederlands | ePub2, 0,6 MB | De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam | 2012
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Cordula Rooijendijk Vrije jongens
een geschiedenis van de Nederlandse handel
Wie zaten er achter de handel die Nederland ooit rijk maakte? Cordula Rooijendijk portretteert de succesvolle ondernemers van toen, de `vrije jongens van de Hanze, de Bergenvaarders, de VOC en de WIC. Ze vertelt over Hinrick van Hasselt, die alle Hanzegeboden negeerde en zijn stokvissen gewoon in Noorwegen verkocht, over Louis de Geer, die zonder scrupules vanuit Zweden de WIC beconcurreerde, over Jan Reeps, die in z n eentje Zuid-Amerika wilde koloniseren, en over Anthony van Hoboken, die rustig...
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Nederlands | 228 pagina's (ePub2, 4,4 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2014
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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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