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The dynamics of religious reform in Northern Europe, 1780-1920 / 3 Piety and Modernity / druk 1
2013 || Hardcover || Anders Jarlert || Universitaire Pers Leuven
Third volume in the series Dynamics of Religious Reform
Piety and Modernity examines the dynamics of religious reform from the point of view of piety and devotional life between 1780 and 1920 in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany, and the Low Countries.
The 'long' nineteenth century saw the introduction of devotional organizations as a means of channeling popular religion. This era also witnessed the translation and publication of devotional books, journals, and pamphlets on a massive sc...
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Exempli gratia / druk 1
sagalassos, Marc Waelkens and interdisciplinary archaeology
2013 || Hardcover || Jeroen Poblome || Universitaire Pers Leuven
The Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project has made interdisciplinary practices part of its scientific strategy from the very beginning. The project is internationally acknowledged for important achievements in this respect. Aspects of its approach to ancient Sagalassos can be considered ground-breaking for the archaeology of Anatolia and the wider fields of classical and Roman archaeology.
Now that its first project director, Professor Marc Waelkens - University of Leuven -, is at the st...
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Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum
an interpretation with commentary
2011 || Hardcover || G. Roskam || Universitaire Pers Leuven
The question of the political relevance of philosophy, and of the role which the philosopher should play in the government of his state, was often discussed in Antiquity. Platos ideal of the philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosophers political engagement? Nevertheless, Platos ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch...