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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...

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. Plato's ideal of the...

The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous...

Before the last quarter of the eighteenth century there was a remarkably uniform pattern of church-state relationships across Europe. In the course of the nineteenth century this firm alliance broke...

Politics in Publishing focuses on Japan?s involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country?s 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first...

Over the past years a substantial amount of research has been undertaken relating to the development of powerful learning environments for the acquisition in students of worthwhile educational...

Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a...

In this volume, renowned experts in psychoanalysis reflect on the relationship between psychoanalysis and religion, in particular presenting various controversial interpretations of the question if...

James of Viterbo (ca. 1255?1307), Augustinian friar, master of theology at the University of Paris, and archbishop of Naples, was one of the leading philosophers and theologians of the late...

In the process of completing his critical edition of Marcus of Orvieto's Liber de Moralitatibus, Girard J. Etzkorn happened upon a set of questions attributed to Henry of Ghent at the end of Rome's...

Seven writings assembled in the context of the philosophy of art that Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard developed in the 1980s, at the time of the Differend (1983) and of the "Kantian turn" leading to the...

The road to Queen Elizabeth II?s implementation of African reforms was rough, especially in the first two decades following her ascension to the throne. In this book, Raphael Chijioke Njoku examines...

The most influential question-commentary on the Politics in the Middle Ages This volume is the first complete critical edition of Peter of Auvergne?s Questiones super I-VII libros Politicorum. The...

The art of persuasion, as practised today in political debate as well as in the courts of law, has been developed in the rhetorical tradition, but its authors have disappeared from view. One of them...

Radicalisation is a topical and a much-discussed concept in current European societies. Its use in policy and societal discourses, such as media coverage and educational contexts, is very sensitive...

The history of logic and its development during the medieval period Radulphus Brito?s Quaestiones super Priora Analytica Aristotelis is a major work written in the early 1300s which treated...

Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and film Contemporary culture not merely reflects ongoing societal transformations, it shapes...

Realist Biography and European Policy is the first concerted attempt to integrate the separate strands of (critical) realism as a developed philosophy for social science with biographical narrative...

After a distinguished career of more than 35 years, Ignace Bossuyt retired as professor at the Musicology Department of the University of Leuven on October 1st 2007. As an internationally recognised...

World?s leading theorists of multinational justice on sub-state national minority groups Almost without exception, multinational states across the West are facing existential crises precipitated by...

The impact of Hegelian philosophy on 19th-century music criticism Music?s status as an art form was distrusted in the context of German idealist philosophy which exerted an unparalleled influence on...

Des perspectives nouvelles sur les diverses faces du thème de la tradition au Moyen Age Le volume étudie comment les médiévaux ont compris et discuté les traditions philosophiques et, ce faisant, de...

With its search for purity, honesty, modesty, and "fitness of purpose," the late nineteenth and early twentieth century concept of architectural regionalism is seminal to the modern movement. In...

In this book some 25 scholars focus on the relationship between religion, children's literature and modernity in Western Europe since the Enlightenment (c. 1750). They examine various aspects of the...

Significant contribution to the retranslation studies of religious texts.Despite the lively scholarly discourse on retranslation and its manifest value for uncovering dynamics of cultural change,...

Laughter, often defined as humankind's exclusive characteristics, remains in itself an ambiguity. All the more so when one attempts to understand it in a culture from the past. Can humour be...

Author: Katlijn MalflietPublisher: Leuven University PressPublication Date: Feb 15, 2002Number of Pages: 180 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 905867195XISBN-13: 9789058671950

Sagalassos IV: Report on the Survey and Excavation Campaigns of 1994 and 1995Author: Jeroen PoblomePublisher: Leuven University PressPublication Date: 35476Number of Pages: 586 pagesBinding: Social...

Sagalassos 6Since 1990, the ancient Greco-Roman city of Sagalassos in southwestern Turkey has been the focus of an interdisciplinary archaeological research project coordinated by the Katholieke...