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In-depth analysis of Plutarch?s anti-Epicurean treatise Adversus ColotemL?Adversus Colotem, composto intorno al 100 d.C., fa parte, insieme al non posse e al de latenter vivendo, della cosiddetta...

La Corte y las Casas Reales resultaron fundamentales en la organización política de las Monarquías modernas. Sin duda, Borgoña resultó de especial relevancia en la gestación de dicho proceso, pues su...

A finales del siglo XVII, la Am?rica espa?ola no sufri? ninguna crisis destinada a la decadencia de su Imperio. El presente libro analiza las causas y consecuencias de los cambios pol?ticos que llev?...

Mise au point définitive de l?épisode central de la transmission du savoir grec en Occident Les relations entre la bibliothèque papale à la fin du XIIIe siècle et le célèbre traducteur Guillaume de...

Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged...

Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln examines the history of the first glass, from its early sporadic occurrence, through the height of its production in the late second millennium BCE, to its disappearance at...

Un regard renouvelé sur la cour de Bruxelles à l?époque moderne Les Gouverneurs-généraux des Pays-Bas espagnols du dix-septième siècle bénéficiaient du conseil de leur confesseur. Ce directeur...

Research on learning disabilities has known a tremendous growth the last 25 years. Yet, despite the progress that is made in diverse domains, learning disabilities still stay a serious challenge to...

Lectura Ordinaria Super Sacram Scripturam Henrici de Gandavo AdscriptaAuthor: R. MackenPublisher: Leuven University PressPublication Date: 29266Number of Pages: 290 pagesBinding: PhilosophyISBN-10:...

This volume constitutes the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon of Western European Left Catholicism from a comparative and transnational perspective. Decisively shaped by the turbulent...

This book is the third of a series of five volumes that exhaustively brings together the writings of Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard (1924-1998) on contemporary art and artists. This collection of essays,...

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...

Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the twentieth century: destruction and postwar reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The...

In the changing world of interwar Europe a longing for stability rose to the surface of social life. Newly developed neighbourhoods and buildings were designed to create the healing community that...

The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have...

Broodthaers' oeuvre and the history of experimental filmMarcel Broodthaers, one of the key figures of the postwar avant-garde, has been recognized and extensively studied as a poet who became a...

About 40 years after the onset of the so-called second demographic transition, Marriage in Motion examines the underlying processes and correlates of spouses' satisfaction with marriage. Among other...

Cette ouvrage richement illustr?e analyse les relations artistiques que Maurice Denis (1870-1943), peintre et th?oricien fran?ais, noue avec la Belgique ? la fin du 19e si?cle et au cours des...

Manuscripts are the source material par excellence for diverse academic disciplines. Art historians, philologists, historians, theologians, philosophers, book historians, and even jurists are known...

Reduced Price!Now only 15,00 instead of 51,50More than ten years ago, some mediaevalists of the K.U.Leuven and the University of Ghent joined together to create a repertory of medieval narrative...

In-depth case study of memorialisation processes after the November 2015 Paris attacks On November 13, 2015, three gunmen opened fire in the Bataclan concert hall at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in Paris...

Thought-provoking insights on the nexus of migration and integration beyond the national context Across the world, and due to ongoing globalisation, migration is increasingly becoming a part of daily...

Scholarly analysis of evolving jihadist organisation, strategies, and operation Jihadist militants keep being a global threat. Many observers suggest that a transformation is likely to happen in...

The compelling story of Hungarian children living with Belgian families during the interwar period Children who migrated without their families were noteworthy participants of interwar European...

Interdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean Does the ?Minoan myth? still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete,...

New perspectives on Belgian Surrealism and the photographic practices of Marcel Mari? Marcel Mari? (1920?993) was a key figure of Belgian post-war Surrealism. He is widely acknowledged for his...

The first book to apply the concept of the 'minor' to the theory of photography. The notion of the minor, developed by Gilles Deleuze and F?lix Guattari in Kafka, Towards a minor literature (1975),...

The first volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's Miscellaneous Texts on contemporary art and artists, Aesthetics and Theory of Art, contains nine essays on general aesthetics and the theory of art. They...

The second volume of Jean-Francois Lyotard's Miscellaneous Texts, Contemporary Artists, gathers thirty-nine essays by Lyotard that deal with twenty-seven influential and innovative contemporary...

In Guatemala, the 36-year armed conflict from 1960 to 1996 claimed 200,000 lives, over two per cent of the population, and displaced a million more. In the 1970s and the 1980s the widespread and...