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The Hybrid Practitioner
Building, Teaching, Researching Architecture
2022 || Paperback || Eireen Schreurs e.a. || Leuven University Press
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of designing and building in the material world. It proposes the concept of the hybrid practitioner, who bridges the gap between academia and practice by considering how different aspects of architectural practice, theory, and history intersect, opening up a fascinating array of p...
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Eloquent Images
Evangelisation, Conversion and Propaganda in the Global World of the Early Modern Period
2022 || Paperback || Giuseppe Capriotti e.a. || Leuven University Press
Drawing on original research covering different periods and spaces, this book sets out to appreciate the specific place of images in the history of evangelisation in the long modern period. How can we reconceptualise the functions of the visual mediation of the gospel message, both in terms of the production and reception of this message and in terms of its effective mediators, artists, religious, and cultural ambassadors? The contributions in this book offer multiple geographical and histori...
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Ambrogio Spinola between Genoa, Flanders, and Spain
2022 || Paperback || Silvia Mostaccio e.a. || Leuven University Press
Many of the most significant studies devoted to Ambrogio Spinola have focused on one particular aspect of his life: his successful military career. This volume, through its interdisciplinary and cultural approach, breaks open this all too narrow perspective and expands our understanding of Spinola and his world. As a great military strategist and Catholic knight, entrepreneur in the international finance market, courtier and diplomat, Spinola was certainly a Genoese, but he was also a member ...
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Working Through Colonial Collections
An Ethnography of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin
2022 || Paperback || Margareta Von Oswald || Leuven University Press
What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin’s Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and fu...
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Hugo Grotius, Annals of the War in the Low Countries
Edition, Translation, and Introduction
2022 || Hardcover || Jan Waszink || Leuven University Press
The Annals of the War in the Low Countries is one of Hugo Grotius' lesser-known works. Grotius expresses a wayward view of the early revolt, which he presents not as a united battle for the true faith and the ancient liberties of the land but as a protracted and painful struggle, not only with the great power of Spain, but also with discord, selfishness and religious fanaticism among the Dutch. To convey this complex and controversial vision of the foundational years of the Dutch Republic, Gr...
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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 ...
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Who Owns Africa?
Neocolonialism, Investment, and the New Scramble
2022 || Paperback || Bekeh Utietiang Ukelina || Leuven University Press
The independence of African countries from their European colonizers in the late 1950s and 1960s marked a shift in the continent's political leadership. Nevertheless, the economies of African nations remained tied to those of their former colonies, raising questions of resource control and the sovereignty of these nation-states.
Who Owns Africa? addresses the role of foreign actors in Africa and their competing interests in exploiting the resources of Africa and its people. An interdisciplina...
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Immanent Transcendence
Francisco Suárez’s Doctrine of Being
2022 || Hardcover || Victor M. Salas || Leuven University Press
Long considered one of late scholasticism’s most important thinkers, Francisco Suárez has, paradoxically enough, often been treated only in relation to other medieval authors or as a transitional figure in the shift from medieval to Early Modern philosophy. As such, his thought has often been obscured and framed in terms of an alien paradigm. This book seeks to correct such approaches and examines Suárez's metaphysical thinking as it stands on its own. Suárez is shown to be much more in ...