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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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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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Tjerk de Reus | H.M. van Praag God, religie en ons brein
in gesprek met Herman M. van Praag
Interviews met de invloedrijke Nederlandse psychiater (1929) over psychiatrie, medische biologie en religie en over zijn persoonlijke visie op religie en zijn joodse achtergrond.
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Nederlands | ePub, 1,2 MB | Kok, Baarn | 2012
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Hans Boland Hij kan me de bout hachelen met zijn vorstendommetje
over Anna Karenina en de kunst van het vertalen
Bespreking van Tolstojs roman 'Anna Karenina' en de nieuwe Nederlandse vertaling ervan, met een pleidooi voor vrij in plaats van letterlijk vertalen.
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Nederlands | 127 pagina's | Uitgeverij Pegasus, Amsterdam | 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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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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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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Walter Weyns Het geval Canetti
Monografie over de Bulgaarse schrijver en denker (1905-1994), met name over zijn werk 'Massa en macht'.
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Nederlands | 207 pagina's | Acco, Leuven, Voorburg | 2008
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Harry A. Poeze Dominee Jac. Jonker, Job Sytzen en de soldaat in Indië
Biografie van Jacob Jonker (1904-1973), die als legerpredikant tenminste één van de politionele acties in Indonesië meemaakte en onder het pseudoniem Job Sytzen een succesvolle romantrilogie schreef over het leven van Nederlandse soldaten in Indonesië en hun erotische escapades.
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Nederlands | 119 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2019
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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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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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Hans Demeyer | Sven Vitse Affectieve crisis, literair herstel
de romans van de millennialgeneratie
Systematische, ideologisch kritische studie van de romans van millennials in de Nederlandse en Vlaamse literatuur.
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Nederlands | 316 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam | 2021
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Elisabeth Bumiller Condoleezza Rice
een leven van ambitie en volharding
Biografie van de Amerikaanse politica (geboren in 1954), onder president George W. Bush minister van Buitenlandse Zaken.
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Nederlands | 448 pagina's | Kosmos, Utrecht [etc.] | 2008
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Leo Frijda Tel me bij de amandelen
een persoonlijke reis door de literatuur
Persoonlijke zoektocht van de auteur naar de verloren wereld van het Oost-Europese jodendom.
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Nederlands | 306 pagina's | Uitgeverij Amphora Books, Amsterdam | 2019
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Stephen L. Buchmann Bloemen
Het ontstaan en de functie van bloemen in het geologisch en historisch verleden en de tegenwoordige tijd worden vanuit diverse gezichtshoeken bekeken.
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Nederlands | 367 pagina's | Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2016
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Lucebert 'Wie wil stralen die moet branden'
citaten en aforismen van Lucebert
Thematisch gerangschikte citaten, afkomstig uit de poëzie van de Nederlandse dichter (1924-1994) en voorzien van een letterkundige inleiding.
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Nederlands | 85 pagina's | BnM, [Nijmegen] | 2007
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Hans Zirkzee Jazz in Rotterdam
de geschiedenis van een grotestadscultuur
Beschrijving van de geschiedenis van de jazz in Rotterdam en het uitgaansleven van de havenstad vanaf 1877 tot heden. Kort na de Eerste Wereldoorlog arriveerde de nieuwe muziek op de jonge Coolsingel boulevard. Tijdens The Roaring Twenties verwierven de Rotterdamse jazzmusici zich een internationale status. De stad bouwde de grootste theaters en dancings, zoals het legendarische Pschorr en het Grand Theater. Het amusement stond tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog op een kwantitatief hoogtepunt en de jazzmuziek...
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Nederlands | 498 pagina's | DATO, [Eindhoven] | 2015
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