Resultaten (8)
Mediaevalia Lovaniensia - Series 1/Studia Between Text and Tradition
Pietro d’Abano and the reception of pseudo-Aristotle’s problemata physica in the Middle Ages
2016 || Paperback || Pieter de Leemans e.a. || Leuven University Press
New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations.
The commentary of the Italian physician and philosopher Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew of Messina's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source. In a section of the corpus Aristotelicum that was not part of the standard curriculum at the medieval university, the commentary of Pietro d'Abano investigates the complex relationship between text, translat...
The Modernization of Chinese Art
2016 || Hardcover || Jane Zheng || Leuven University Press
Fist academic study on modernity at the Shanghai Art College
The Shanghai Art College was one of the most important art schools in Republican China. This is the first academic study written on the early history of the College. It makes a major contribution to the history of art education in China, Shanghai in particular. The book presents a new approach to how people understand the modernization of Chinese art, and the significance and consequences of modernity in the Shanghai art world of th...
Orpheus Institute Series Experimental Affinities in Music
2016 || Paperback || Paulo de Assis || Leuven University Press
Exploring experimental attitudes in music.
Experimental Affinities in Music brings together diverse artistic, musicological, historical, and philosophical essays, enhancing a broad discourse on artistic experimentation, and exploring various experimental attitudes in music composed between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries.
The golden thread running through the different chapters is the quest for inherently experimental musical practices, a quest pursued from interrogating, descriptive, ...
Autonomous Architecture in Flanders
the early works of Marie-José Van Hee, Paul Robbrecht & Hilde Daem, Christian Kieckens and Marc Dubois
2016 || Hardcover || Caroline Voet e.a. || Leuven University Press
The influence and position of the 'Generation 74' in Flemish and international architecture.
Five well-known architects who studied together in Ghent, Marie-José Van Hee, Christian Kieckens, Marc Dubois, Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem, can be considered as leading protagonists of their generation. From their education at Sint-Lucas Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts to the present day, their professional careers and legacy have been of great importance to the development of Flemish archit...
Plutarchea Hypomnemata Plutarch’s science of natural problems
2016 || Hardcover || Michiel Meeusen || Leuven University Press
The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era.
In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakeably 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, and answers pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective s...
Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels What Happens When Nothing Happens
boredom and everyday life in contemporary comics
2016 || Paperback || Greice Schneider || Leuven University Press
Boredom and melancholy in the experience of reading.
Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. Present-day graphic accounts are inhabited by melancholic characters whining about the lack of meaning in life. This book examines this intriguing transition and brings a historical, aesthetical and narratological approach to comics in which boredom is not only a topic, but also awakens a deliberate...
Dynamics of Religious Reform Charity and social welfare
2016 || Hardcover || Leen van Molle || Leuven University Press
How churches in Northern Europe reinvented their role as providers of social relief.
Charity is a word that fits well in the history of religion and churches, whereas the concept of social reform seems to belong more to the vocabulary of the modern welfare states. Christian charity found itself, during the long nineteenth century, within the maelstrom of social turmoil. In this context of social unrest, although charity managed to confirm its relevance, it was also subjected to fierce critici...
Plutarchea Hypomnemata A Versatile Gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing
2016 || Hardcover || Jan Opsomer e.a. || Leuven University Press
Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober historian and a teller of wondrous tales. I...