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Ingrid Biesheuvel Der naturen bloeme
Rond 1270 schreef de beroemde Vlaamse dichter Jacob van Maerlant Der Naturen Bloeme. Het is een vertaling-op-rijm van Liber de natura rerum van de geleerde Thomas van Cantimpré. Dankzij Maerlant kon iedereen die geen Latijn kende, lezen over de mens, zoogdieren, vogels, vissen, insecten, bomen, planten, wondervolkeren, monsters, metalen en edelstenen. Maerlant vertaalde niet slaafs: hij voegde details toe over de natuur in zijn omgeving en wijze lessen die de mens van de natuur kan leren. Ingrid...
Nederlands | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 34 MB) | Walburg Pers, Amsterdam | 2024
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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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W.F. Denslagen Historiografische introspecties
geschiedschrijver over geschiedschrijvers
Wim Denslagen (1946) was hoogleraar aan de universiteit van Utrecht en publiceerde onder meer Romantisch modernisme. Nostalgie in de monumentenzorg. Amsterdam (2004), Memories of Architecture. Architectural Heritage and Historiography in the Distant Past (2009), Beemden en bouwlanden, Het verdwijnende boerenlandschap (2011) en Observations on Urban Aesthetics. London, Paris and New York (2016). Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Nederlands | 187 pagina's (ePub2, 0,6 MB) | U2pi, Voorburg | 2018
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L.F. van Driel Een leven in woorden
J.H. van Dale, schoolmeester, archivaris, taalkundige
Biografie van de man uit Sluis aan wie het meest bekende Nederlandse woordenboek zijn naam dankt (1828-1872).
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Nederlands | 448 pagina's (ePub, 18 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2016
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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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Frederike Doppenberg 'De Arbeiderspers moest blijven marcheeren'
een uitgeverij in oorlogstijd
In mei 2009 bestond Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers tachtig jaar. Sinds haar oprichting in 1929 heeft de uitgeverij heel wat stormen doorstaan. Maar de hevigste storm vond wel tijdens de Duitse bezetting plaats. Kort na de capitulatie bezette Meinoud Rost van Tonningen `De Rode Burcht . Hij had opdracht gekregen De Arbeiderspers om te vormen van een socialistisch tot een nationaal-socialistisch platform, naar eigen zeggen om `het ware volksche socialisme aan de arbeider terug te geven. De nieuwe leiding...
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Nederlands | ePub, 2 MB | Arbeiderspers, Utrecht | 2011
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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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Studies in Latin literature and epigraphy in Italian fascism
This book deals with the use of Latin as a literary and epigraphic language under Italian Fascism (1922-1943). The myth of Rome lay at the heart of Italian Fascist ideology, and the ancient language of Rome, too, played an important role in the regime's cultural politics. This collection deepens our understanding of 'Fascist Latinity', presents a range of previously little-known material, and opens up a number of new avenues of research. The chapters explore the pivotal role of Latin in constructing...
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Engels | PDF, 11 MB | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2020
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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