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?L?Étrurie est à la mode?, French archaeologist Salomon Reinach bluntly stated in 1927. Since the beginning of the nineteenth century, Etruria had not only been attracting the attention of...

This volume focuses on Islamic thinking, activism, and politics in both the West and the Middle East.Author: Erkan Toguslu, Johan LemanPublisher: Leuven University PressPublication Date: Jul 29,...

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...

Although early modern urban musical life has been the object of investigation with several researchers, little is known about the ways in which musical cultures were integrated within their broader...

Transdisciplinary and intermedial analysis of the experience of music Nowadays musical semiotics no longer ignores the fundamental challenges raised by cognitive sciences, ethology, or linguistics...

In 'Musical Form, Forms & Formenlehre: Three Methodological Reflections', three eminent music theorists consider the fundamentals of musical form. They discuss how to analyze form in music and...

Unconventional Muslim marriages have been topics of heated public debate. Around the globe, religious scholars, policy makers, political actors, media personalities, and women?s activists discuss,...

Myricae: de Rebus Italicis Deque Triumpho Ludovici XII Regis Francorum TragoediaAuthor: Dirk Sacr?Publisher: Leuven University PressPublication Date: 36571Number of Pages: 690 pagesBinding: Literary...

The value of Plutarch?s perception of physical reality and his attitude towards the natural spectacle Plutarch was very interested in the natural world around him, not only in terms of its elementary...

In New Paths, five renowned scholars discuss a variety of topics related to Romanticism, focusing especially on the years 1800-1840. In a much-needed historical and critical overview of the concept...

The topic of social assistance for migrant newcomers often sparks heated public debate and remains a prominent concern on the policy agenda. Society has experienced a growing level of diversity. This...

Sylvester Mauro, S.J. (1619-1687) noted that human intellects can grasp what is, what is not, what can be, and what cannot be. The first principle, "it is not possible that the same thing...

This study is divided into two main parts. The first one is about the specific Stoic doctrine on moral progress (prokop?). Attention is first given to the subtle view developed by the early Stoics,...

Figures of the Unconscious 7In Origins and Ends of the Mind, a collection of theoretical essays by philosophers and psychoanalysts, encounters are arranged between Freudian and Lacanian...

Freud's ideas on infantile sexuality can only be understood as constructions that are necessary to understand the psychopathological formations of adults. These constructions of infantile sexuality,...

For many painters in seventeenth-century Brussels, it was not only their artistic talent but also the communities they were part of that determined the course of their careers. This book traces the...

This book is an edited publication of several excavation campaigns in Egypt, oriented towards the understanding of the chert extraction techniques employed by Middle and early Upper Palaeolithic...

In this photo book, Els Vanden Meersch investigates the latent presence of violence and dominance in the everyday reality of the urban fabric. Subtle images contain combinations of banal details,...

This volume is a collection of essays based on lectures given at the International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory on 'Music and Theory: Thoroughbass in Practice, Theory, and Improvisation'. Hence...

Selection of Latin poetry by the renowned Finnish scholar Tuomo Pekkanen Tuomo Pekkanen is one of the major Latin poets of our times. He is renowned for the Latin translation of Finland?s national...

Perennial Tradition of NeoplatonismAuthor: J. ClearyPublisher: Leuven University PressPublication Date: 35476Number of Pages: 578 pagesBinding: PhilosophyISBN-10: 9061868475ISBN-13: 9789061868477

This book addresses themes in the newly emerging discipline of philosophy of chemistry, in particular issues in connection with discussions in general philosophy of science on natural kinds,...

There is little dispute that photography is a material practice, and that the photograph itself is ineluctably material. And yet ?matter,? ?material,? and ?materiality? have proven to be remarkably...

In medieval and early modern natural philosophy, very few issues were as controversial as the nature of the elements. From the thirteenth up until the sixteenth century, European thinkers discussed...

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,...

Platonic Ideas and Concept Formation in Ancient and Medieval ThoughtAuthor: G. Van RielPublisher: Leuven University PressPublication Date: 38032Number of Pages: 260 pagesBinding: PhilosophyISBN-10:...

This book examines the important but largely neglected issue of the interrelation between Platonism and Stoicism in Ancient Philosophy. Several renowned specialists in the fields of Stoic and...

The particular focus of this volume is a study of the influence of Timaeus on the development of Western cosmology in three axial periods of European culture: Late Antiquity, Middle Ages and...

A fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch?s attitude towards rhetoric. Plutarch was not only a skilled writer, but also lived during the Second Sophistic, a period of cultural renaissance. This book...

At the beginning of the second century C.E., Plutarch of Chaeronea wrote a series of pairs of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen. Their purpose is moral: the reader is invited to reflect on...