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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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Johan Francke Al die willen te kaap'ren varen
de Nederlandse commissievaart tijdens de Vierde Engelse Oorlog, 1780-1784
De Republiek was tijdens de Vierde Engelse Oorlog (1780-1784) niet opgewassen tegen de maritieme kracht van Groot-Brittannië. Na de Slag bij Doggersbank zouden alleen de Nederlandse kapers nog in actie komen om schepen te rantsoeneren (het vragen van losgeld) of buit te maken op de vijand. Hoewel de kaperkapiteins zowel in aantal als opgebrachte prijzen ver achterbleven bij eerdere oorlogen kregen ze daardoor wel een heldenstatus toegedicht; iets dat in die mate niet eerder voorgevallen was. Recent...
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Nederlands | 480 pagina's (ePub2, 62 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2020
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E.H.P. Cordfunke Begraven verleden
hoven en kastelen in Kennemerland [850-1350]
Historisch-archeologische studie over de middeleeuwse ontwikkeling van hoven en kastelen in Kennemerland.
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Nederlands | 144 pagina's (ePub2, 12 MB) | Walburg Pers, Zutphen | 2020
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Andrew Lambert De zeemogendheden
hoe een maritieme mentaliteit de vrije wereld maakte
Historisch overzicht van de invloed van zeemogendheden, gebaseerd op vrijhandel, een liberaal klimaat en op zee gerichte cultuur.
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Nederlands | 437 pagina's (ePub2, 18 MB) | Omniboek, Utrecht | 2019
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Herman van der Wusten | Virginie Mamadouh Geopolitiek
Wordingsgeschiedenis van de ontwikkeling en het gebruik van het begrip 'geopolitiek' in de internationale context.
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Nederlands | 130 pagina's (ePub2, 7,7 MB) | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2015
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Rosine De Dijn Einstein & Elisabeth
de ongewone vriendschap tussen een ongewone geleerde en een ongewone koningin van België
Geschiedenis van de vriendschap tussen Albert Einstein (1879-1955) en koningin Elisabeth van België (1876-1965), die vooral tot uiting kwam in hun briefwisseling.
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Nederlands | 204 pagina's (ePub2, 7,9 MB) | Horizon, Antwerpen | 2015
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Twan Huys Over geluk
Kleine zoektocht naar het wezen van geluk in de voetsporen van de 18e-eeuwse filosoof Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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Nederlands | 39 pagina's (ePub2, 0,2 MB) | Unieboek | Het Spectrum, Houten | 2013
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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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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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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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M. Hulspas Reuzen van de Lage Landen
met Robbert Dijkgraaf op zoek naar onze grootste natuurwetenschappers
Historische portretten van negen natuurwetenschappers uit Nederland en België die op hun vakgebied voor belangrijke doorbraken hebben gezorgd.
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Nederlands | 160 pagina's (ePub2, 3,7 MB) | Nieuw Amsterdam, Amsterdam | 2012
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Maurits Martijn | Cees Wiebes Operatie Leunstoel
hoe een klein Nederlands bedrijf de CIA hielp om de Russen af te luisteren
Journalistiek platform De Correspondent doet op donderdag 24 september 2015 na anderhalf jaar onderzoek nieuwe onthullingen over de rol van Nederland in de Koude Oorlog. Bron: Flaptekst, uitgeversinformatie
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Nederlands | ePub | De Correspondent, Amsterdam | 2015
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Mitchell Zuckoff Verloren in het paradijs
de onwaarschijnlijke redding van drie militairen uit de onherbergzame jungle van Nederlands Nieuw-Guinea
Wanneer een Amerikaanse commandant in Nieuw-Guinea besluit zijn manschappen in mei 1945 te onthalen op een vliegtochtje naar een 'verborgen' dal (Shangri-La), storten zij neer; slechts twee mannen en een vrouw overleven.
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Nederlands | 401 pagina's (ePub2, 25 MB) | Karakter Uitgevers, Uithoorn | 2016
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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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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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