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Neo-Latin commentaries and the management of knowledge in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (1400-1700)
Profound study of one of the most important genres within Humanist scholarship. Between 1400 and 1700 the political, religious, intellectual, and even geographic landscape was profoundly changed by the Reformation, Humanism, the rise of empirical science, the invention of printing technology, and the discovery of the New World. The late medieval and early modern intellectuals felt an urgent need to respond to the changes they were involved in, and to come to a revision and re-authorisation of knowledge....
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Engels | Duits | 540 pagina's (PDF, 59 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Translating at the court
Bartholomew of Messina and cultural life at the court of Manfred, King of Sicily
The importance of Bartholomew's oeuvre and cultural life under the reign of Manfred. An important chapter in the rediscovery of Aristotle in the Middle Ages is the oeuvre of Bartholomew of Messina (Bartholomaeus de Messana), a translator at the court of Manfred, King of Sicily (1258-1266). However, the impact of both Bartholomew and Manfred on the cultural and intellectual life of their time remains understudied, especially in comparison to the attention received by the translator's contemporary,...
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Engels | Italiaans | Duits | Frans | 426 pagina's (PDF, 8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Kadoc Religious institutes and catholic culture in 19th- en 20th-century Europe
A broad perspective on the role of religious institutes in social and cultural practices This volume examines the cultural contribution of religious institutes, men and women religious, and their role in the constitution of Catholic communities of communication in different European countries (England, Germany, Liechtenstein, the Low Countries, the Nordic Countries, Switzerland). The articles focus on social and cultural history by comparing both discourses and cultural and social practices, as well...
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Engels | 216 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Universiteitsmuseum Gelukkig gezond!
De geschiedenis van de aandacht voor een gezonde levenstijl vanaf de oudheid.
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Nederlands | Engels | 131 pagina's | Barkhuis & Universiteitsmuseum/University Museum Groningen, Groningen | 2017
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Huis en habitus
over kastelen, buitenplaatsen en notabele levensvormen
Liber amicorum ter gelegenheid van het afscheid van prof. dr. Yme Kuiper als bijzonder hoogleraar Historische Buitenplaatsen en landgoederen.
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Nederlands | Engels | 487 pagina's | Verloren, Hilversum | 2017
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Christopher De Bellaigue The Islamic enlightenment
the modern struggle between faith and reason
Aan de hand van portretten en levensbeschrijvingen van bekende en minder bekende personen in voonamelijk Caìˆro, Istanbul en Teheran wordt de islamitische verlichting beschreven, waarvan met name sprake was tussen 1798 en de Eerste Wereldoorlog.
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Engels | 404 pagina's | Vintage, London | 2018
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