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Lepanto and Beyond
Images of Religious Alterity from Genoa and the Christian Mediterranean
2021 || Paperback || Laura Stagno e.a. || Leuven University Press
The Battle of Lepanto, celebrated as the greatest triumph of Christianity over its Ottoman enemy, was soon transformed into a powerful myth through a vast media campaign. The varied storytelling and the many visual representations that contributed to shape the perception of the battle in Christian Europe are the focus of this book. In broader terms, Lepanto and Beyond also sheds light on the construction of religious alterity in the early modern Mediterranean. It presents cross-disciplinary c...
Cultural Mediation in Europe, 1800-1950
2018 || Paperback || Reine Meylaerts e.a. || Leuven University Press
International exchange in European cultural life in the 19th and 20th centuries.From the early nineteenth century till the middle of the twentieth century, cultures in Europe were primarily national. They were organized and conceived of as attributes of the nation states. Nonetheless, these national cultures crossed borders with an unprecedented intensity even before globalization transformed the very concept of culture. During that long period, European cultures have imported and exported pr...
The Portrait and the Colonial Imaginary
Photography between France and Africa, 1900-1939
2020 || Paperback || Simon Dell || Leuven University Press
French colonisers of the Third Republic claimed not to oppress but to liberate, imagining they were spreading republican ideals to the colonies to make a Greater France. In this book Simon Dell explores the various roles played by portraiture in this colonial imaginary.
Anyone interested in the history of colonial Africa will have encountered innumerable portraits of African elites produced during the first half of the twentieth century, yet no book to date has focused on these ubiquitous ima...
Rester Catholique en France
l’encadrement religieux destiné aux migrants belgo-flamands du Lillois, de Paris et des campagnes françaises 1850-1960
2019 || Paperback || Henk Byls || Leuven University Press
« Splendide famille. Le père, un gars flamand, simple, robuste – la mère profondément religieuse. Les enfants tous débordants de vie. Ils ont un tel courage, pour braver les Français avec leur conviction religieuse. »
Ainsi parlait le père jésuite Frans Van den Brande, l’un des aumôniers des paysans flamands du Nord de la France dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Son activité avait un objectif simple: s’assurer que les émigrés belges restassent catholiques et flamands. L’initi...
Strategic Imaginations
Women and the Gender of Sovereignty in European Culture
2021 || Paperback || Anke Gilleir e.a. || Leuven University Press
What is the gender of political power? Since the beginning of political thought, rule has been a male prerogative in European imagination. This is of course not to say that there never were women sovereigns. In-depth studies of women sovereigns have grown considerably in number in the past three decades and have added substantially to our understanding of the complexities of their rule of power.
Yet what is often obscured by such in-depth analyses is the fact that all women rulers throughout ...
At Home in Renaissance Bruges
Connecting Objects, People and Domestic Spaces in a Sixteenth-Century City
2022 || Paperback || Julie De Groot || Leuven University Press
How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such as probate inventories? These questions seem straightforward, yet few endeavours are more challenging than reconstructing a sixteenth-century domestic reality from written sources. This book takes full advantage of the inventory and convincingly frames household objects in ...