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Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia Florilegium recentioris Latinitatis
2018 || Paperback || Milena Minkova || Leuven University Press
A comprehensive critical anthology of Neo-Latin texts.
Neo-Latin, a truly interdisciplinary and multicultural field of study, has become especially relevant in today's global age. Latin does not belong to any particular country, but to the Republic of Letters with its high aims and universal appeal. A comprehensive critical anthology of Neo-Latin would thus be useful in the classroom, both in secondary school and on university level, as well as for independent scholars. The present volume is ...
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Mediaevalia Lovaniensia - Series 1/Studia Wissensordnungen des Rechts im Wandel
Päpstlicher Jurisdiktionsprimat und Zölibat zwischen 1000 und 1215
2018 || Paperback || Stephan Dusil || Leuven University Press
Fascinating insights into the origins of canon law as an academic discipline and legal knowledge in the High Middle Ages.
Die Studie untersucht die Ordnung des mittelalterlichen Rechtswissens in vorgratianischen Sammlungen, dem Decretum Gratiani sowie den Glossen und Summen zum Dekret. Im Mittelpunkt steht also das kirchenrechtliche Wissen, das sich zwischen 1000 und 1215 grundlegend änderte: Während kirchliche Rechtsregeln um 1000 in Kanonessammlungen linear gespeichert waren, wurden sie im...
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Dora, Hysteria and Gender
Reconsidering Freud’s Case Study
2018 || Paperback || Daniela Finzi e.a. || Leuven University Press
‘Dora’ is one the most important and interesting case studies Sigmund Freud conducted and later described. It constitutes a key text in his oeuvre and finds itself at the crossroads of his studies in hysteria, the theory of sexuality and dream interpretation. The Dora case is both a literary and theoretically ground-breaking text and an account of a ‘failed’ treatment. In Dora, Hysteria and Gender renowned Freud scholars reflect on the Dora case, presenting various innovative and cont...
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The United States of Belgium
The Story of the First Belgian Revolution
2018 || Paperback || Jane C. Judge || Leuven University Press
In 1790, between the birth of America (1776) and the creation of the French National Assembly (1789), nine provinces nestled between the French and Dutch borders declared themselves a new free and independent country: the United States of Belgium. Before then, the provinces had been part of the vast Austrian Habsburg Empire ruled by Joseph II. In 1789 revolutionaries from Brussels to Ghent to Namur recruited a grass-roots army that, to the surprise of many, successfully chased imperial forces...
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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...
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CeMIS Migration and Intercultural Studies Migration and Integration in Flanders
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
2018 || Paperback || Christiane Timmerman e.a. || Leuven University Press
First volume in the new series CeMIS Migration and Intercultural Studies.
Moroccans are one of the largest and most debated migrant groups in Belgium. Moroccan Migration in Belgium analyses diverse facets of this community from a multidisciplinary perspective and addresses the most relevant and some underexposed topics in the rapidly developing field of migration studies. Combining various academic disciplines and different research methods, the book offers a panoramic introspection into the ...
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Cardinal Mercier in the First World War
2018 || Paperback || Jan De Volder || Leuven University Press
Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation during the First World War. With his famous pastoral letter of Christmas 1914 ‘Patriotisme et Endurance’ he reached a wide audience, and gained international influence and respect.
Mercier’s distinct patriotic stance clearly determined his views of national politics, especially of the 'Flemish question', and his conflict with the German occupier made him a...
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KADOC-Studies on Religion, Culture and Society Life Inside the Cloister
Understanding Monastic Architecture
2018 || Paperback || Thomas Coomans || Leuven University Press
Sacred architecture as reality and metaphor in secularised Western society.
Christian monasteries and convents, built throughout Europe for the best part of 1,500 years, are now at a crossroads. This study attempts to understand the sacred architecture of monasteries as a process of the tangible and symbolic organisation of space and time for religious communities. Despite the weight of seemingly immutable monastic tradition, architecture has contributed to developing specific religious ident...
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Orpheus Institute Series Powers of Divergence
2018 || Paperback || Lucia D'Errico || Leuven University Press
Beyond resemblance: creative divergence in music performance.
What does it mean to produce resemblance in the performance of written music? Starting from how this question is commonly answered by the practice of interpretation in Western notated art music, this book proposes a move beyond commonly accepted codes, conventions and territories of music performance. Appropriating reflections from post-structural philosophy, visual arts and semiotics, and crucially based upon an artistic research ...
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Le confesseur du Prince dans les Pays-Bas espagnols (1598-1659)
2018 || Paperback || Pierre-François Pirlet || Leuven University Press
Les Gouverneurs-généraux des Pays-Bas espagnols du dix-septième siècle bénéficiaient du conseil de leur confesseur. Ce directeur spirituel, issu du clergé régulier, tint un rôle significatif dans l’organisation du pouvoir politique bruxellois.
Cette étude, qui couvre la période courant des archiducs Albert et Isabelle jusqu’au dernier Gouverneur-général issu de la famille royale, soit les années 1598 à 1659, propose, pour la première fois, une approche transversale de la f...