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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...

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Plutarchea Hypomnemata A Perfect Medium?

oracular divination in the thought of plutarch

2017 || Hardcover || Elsa Giovanna Simonetti || Leuven University Press

An in-depth analysis of oracular divination in Plutarch's thought.

Oracular divination was of special concern for Plutarch of Chaeronea (45-120 AD), Platonic philosopher as well as priest at the oracle of Apollo in Delphi. The peculiar nature of Delphic divination as an (im)perfect intermediary between the material and the immaterial world is fathomed in a thorough study of Plutarch's Delphic dialogues. This in-depth philosophical-conceptual analysis will disclose an original interpretation o...

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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...

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Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces

Colonial Borders in French and Francophone Literature and Film

2021 || Paperback || Mohit Chandna || Leuven University Press

Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European borders. In his monograph, Mohit Chandna engages with narrations of spatial conflicts in French and Francophone literature and film from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. In literary works by Jules Verne, Ananda Devi, and Patrick Chamoiseau, and film by Michael H...