Symbolic communication in late medieval towns

This volume addresses symbolic forms of communication in the late medieval towns of the Low Countries, northern France and the Swiss Confederation. In context of State centralisation, the political autonomy of these towns was threatened by tensions with higher levels of power. Within this conflict both rulers and towns employed symbolic means of communication to legitimise their power position. The intensive use of rituals like theatreplays and gift-exchange demonstrates that symbolic forms of communication...

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Engels | 147 pagina's (PDF, 1,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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The use and abuse of sacred places in late medieval towns

Congresbijdragen over de maatschappelijke betekenis en het wereldlijke nevengebruik van kerk- en kloostergebouwen in West-Europa tijdens de middeleeuwen.

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Duits | Engels | 248 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Ecclesia in medio nationis

reflections on the study of monasticism in the central Middle Ages

The role of monastic institutions in society during the Central Middle Ages has been much debated in medieval studies. Some scholars saw monasticism as the principal motivator of economic, social, intellectual and 'spiritual' progress in human society, while others regarded monastic ideology as fundamentally anti-social and oriented towards itself. These debates seem to have lost some of their relevance to the present-day scholar. Today monasticism is studied as a social entity which needed interactions...

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Engels | Frans | 200 pagina's (PDF, 26 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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Translating at the court

Bartholomew of Messina and cultural life at the court of Manfred, King of Sicily

The importance of Bartholomew's oeuvre and cultural life under the reign of Manfred. An important chapter in the rediscovery of Aristotle in the Middle Ages is the oeuvre of Bartholomew of Messina (Bartholomaeus de Messana), a translator at the court of Manfred, King of Sicily (1258-1266). However, the impact of both Bartholomew and Manfred on the cultural and intellectual life of their time remains understudied, especially in comparison to the attention received by the translator's contemporary,...

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Duits | Engels | Frans | Italiaans | 426 pagina's (PDF, 8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Science translated

Latin and vernacular translations of scientific treatises in medieval Europe

Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase....

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Engels | Frans | 478 pagina's (PDF, 5,6 MB) | Leiven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Aristotle's "Problemata" in different times and tongues

The present volume contains a collection of papers on the reception of Aristotle's Problemata, a multifaceted text asking various questions about medical, scientific or everyday topics. This text is one of the most neglected Aristotelian treatises, because of its heterogeneous character and its so-called 'inauthenticity'. It has been the subject of a complex transmission. In ancient times, Aristotle's text has been augmented and adapted, while still other authors composed similar collections of Problemata....

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Engels | Frans | 326 pagina's (PDF, 4,7 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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Medieval manuscripts in transition

tradition and creative recycling

Manuscripts constitute the source material par excellence for diverse academic disciplines. Art historians, philologists, historians, theologians, philosophers, book historians and even jurists encounter one another around the codex. The fact that such an encounter can be extremely fertile was demonstrated, during an international congress in Brussels on November 5-9, 2002. A record of the discussions can be found in this volume of the Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. The editors selected those lectures...

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Engels | Frans | 384 pagina's (PDF, 5,8 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

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Between text and tradition

Pietro d’Abano and the reception of Pseudo-Aristotle’s Problemata physica in the Middle Ages

New insights into Pietro d'Abano's unique approach to translations. The commentary of Pietro d'Abano on Bartholomew's Latin translation of Pseudo-Aristotle's Problemata Physica, published in 1310, constitutes an important historical source for the investigation of the complex relationship between text, translation, and commentary in a non-curricular part of the corpus Aristotelicum. As the eight articles in this volume show, the study of Pietro's commentary not only provides valuable insights into...

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Engels | Frans | 280 pagina's (PDF, 1,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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The use and abuse of sacred places in late medieval towns

Congresbijdragen over de maatschappelijke betekenis en het wereldlijke nevengebruik van kerk- en kloostergebouwen in West-Europa tijdens de middeleeuwen.

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Duits | Engels | 247 pagina's | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2006

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Dan Jones | Jeffrey L. Ward The Templars

the rise and fall of God's holy warriors

The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful and most secretive of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealth and influence followed by a bloody and humiliating fall has left a comet's tail of mystery that continues to fascinate and inspire historians, novelists and conspiracy theorists

Engels | daisy-rom | Dedicon, Grave | 2019

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G.W. Bowersock The crucible of Islam

Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this most obscure and yet most dynamic period in the history of Islam--from the mid-sixth to mid-seventh century--exploring why arid Arabia proved to be such fertile ground for Muhammad's prophetic message, and why that message...

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Engels | 220 pagina's | Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2017

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Max Adams Ælfred's Britain

war and peace in the Viking age

Engels | 509 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2018

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Alison Weir Queens of conquest

England's medieval queens

Populairwetenschappelijk studie over de Normandische koninginnen in Engeland tussen 1066 en 1167: Mathilde van Vlaanderen (1031-1083), Mathilde van Schotland (1080-1118), Adelheid van Leuven (1103-1151), Mathilde van Boulonge (1105-1152) en Mathilde van Engeland (1102- 1167).

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Engels | 468 pagina's | John Cape, London | 2017

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Kevin Murray The early Finn cycle

Engels | 200 pagina's | Four Courts Press, Dublin | 2017

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