• Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness

  Before its 1902 publication, Heart of Darkness appeared as a three part series (1899) in Blackwood's Magazine. It was classified by the Modern Library website editors as one of the '100 best novels' and part of the Western canon. The story centres on Charles Marlow, who narrates most of the book. He is an Englishman who takes a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a river boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the dark side of European colonization while exploring the three...

  Engels | 4 uur 38 minuten (211 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2017

  Luisterboek (digitaal)

• David Grann Killers of the flower moon

  oil, money, murder and the birth of the FBI

  Journalistiek onderzoek naar de moorden onder Osage-indianen in de jaren twintig van de twintigste eeuw, die plaatsvonden nadat onder hun reservaat in Oklahoma olie was gevonden, en de rol van de FBI daarbij.

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 336 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, London | 2023

  Gedrukt boek

• Jessica A. Verhagen Forgotten children

  chronicle about a transport of children for food from west to east in the Netherlands during the Second World War March 19 – June 23 1945

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 176 pagina's (PDF, 18 MB) | Aspekt, Soesterberg | 2021

  E-book

• Auguste van der Molenschot Tears from Brabant

  a novel

  This is a novel with many themes. It is about Brabant, a land that is presently half in the Netherlands and the other half in Belgium. It is also the story of a little Brabanter boy, born the year Adolf Hitler came to power. The boy wants a good life and that is not so easy because the Catholic Brabanters are kept down by the Calvinist Hollanders. Many other modern themes come by, such as the Second World War, the emancipation (of women but also of the Catholics), the pill and its effects, secularization,...

  Fictie

  Engels | 286 pagina's (PDF, 0,6 MB) | Aspekt Publishers, Soesterberg | 2018

  E-book

• Isotopes in vitreous materials

  For all archaeological artefactual evidence, the study of the provenance, production technology and trade of raw materials must be based on archaeometry. Whereas the study of the provenance and trade of stone and ceramics is already well advanced, this is not necessarily the case for ancient glass. The nature of the raw materials used and the geographical location of their transformation into artefacts often remain unclear. Currently, these questions are addressed by the use of radiogenic isotope...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 166 pagina's (PDF, 11 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• The Maritain factor

  taking religion into interwar modernism

  By studying the reception and perception of the French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain, this book argues that European modernist artists and intellectuals sought a primordial finality in Catholicism. The French poet, writer, and surrealist filmmaker Jean Cocteau converted under the influence of Maritain. For the painters Gino Severini, a pioneer of Futurism, and Otto Van Rees, one of the first Dadaists -both converts- Maritain played the role of spiritual counselor. And when the promoter of...

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  Engels | 212 pagina's (PDF, 24 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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• The churches

  Developments in church-state relationships in north-western Europe between 1780 and 1920 had a substantial impact on reformist ideas, projects and movements within the churches. Conversely, the dynamics of ecclesiastical reform prompted the state itself to react in various ways, through direct intervention or by adapting its policies and/or promulgating laws. To which extent did church and state mutually influence each other in matters concerning ecclesiastical reform? How and why did they do so?...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 288 pagina's (PDF, 37 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Jeff Lipkes Rehearsals

  the German army in Belgium, August 1914

  Rehearsals is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914 as it affected civilians. Based on extensive eyewitness testimony, the book chronicles events in and around the towns of Liège, Aarschot, Andenne, Tamines, Dinant, and Leuven, where the worst of the German depredations occurred. Without any legitimate pretext, German soldiers killed nearly 6,000 non-combatants, including women and children, and burned some 25,000 homes and other...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 816 pagina's (PDF, 28 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Simon Verdegem Plutarch's Life of Alcibiades

  story, text and moralism

  At the beginning of the second century AD, 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 important ethical issues and to use the example of these great men from the past to improve his or her own conduct. This book offers the first full-scale commentary on the Life of Alcibiades. It examines how Plutarch's biography of one of classical Athens' most controversial politicians functions within the...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 499 pagina's (PDF, 5,5 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Kadoc World views and worldly wisdom

  religion, ideology and politics, 1750–2000; religion, idéologie et politique, 1750–2000

  The attraction and repulsion between the Roman Catholic Church and modernity in Europe between 1750 and 2000. Emiel Lamberts (1941), professor emeritus of contemporary history at KU Leuven, is an international expert in the political and religious history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. His work and the central themes in his research are the starting point in World Views and Worldly Wisdom. No less than eighteen leading international researchers put different aspects of his work in the...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | Frans | 424 pagina's (PDF, 3,2 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Tine Van Osselaer The pious sex

  catholic constructions of masculinity and femininity in Belgium, c. 1800-1940

  The construction of gender in Belgian Catholicism. Although women were called the 'pious sex' much earlier, it was during the nineteenth century, when the differences between men and women were being made more explicit, that an intense bond between women and religion was developed. Religiosity was thought to be a 'natural' part of femininity and turned religious masculinity into an oddity. This clear-cut gender ideology, however, remains an ideology (prescribed and contested) that needs to be put...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 272 pagina's (PDF, 8,1 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• 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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• Geert Roskam A commentary on Plutarch's De latenter vivendo

  Plutarch's De latenter vivendo is the only extant work from Antiquity in which Epicurus' famous ideal of an 'unnoticed life' (lathe biosas) is thematised as such. Moreover, the short rhetorical work provides a lot of interesting information about Plutarch's polemical strategies and about his own philosophical convictions in the domains of ethics, politics, metaphysics, and eschatology. In this book, Plutarch's anti-Epicurean polemic is understood against the background of the previous philosophical...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 279 pagina's (PDF, 2,2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, [Leuven] | 2017

  E-book

• G. Roskam Plutarch's Maxime cum principibus philosopho esse disserendum

  an interpretation with commentary

  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 philosopher-king is well-known, but was precisely his failure to realise his political ideal in Syracuse not the best argument against the philosopher's political engagement? Nevertheless, Plato's ideal remained attractive for later Greek thinkers. This is illustrated, for instance, by one of Plutarch's short...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 252 pagina's (PDF, 3,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Jacopo Cellini Universalism and liberation

  Italian catholic culture and the idea of international community, 1963-1978

  The changing attitude of Catholic culture towards modernity. After decades of a problematic, if not plainly hostile, approach to modernity by Catholic culture, the 1960s marked the beginning of a new era. As the Church employed a more positive approach to the world, voices in the Catholic milieu embraced a radical perspective, channeling the need for social justice for the poor and the oppressed. The alternative and complementary world views of 'universalism' and 'liberation' would drive the engagement...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 272 pagina's (PDF, 1,5 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Kadoc Charity and social welfare

  How churches in Northern Europe reinvented their role as providers of social relief. Charity is a word that fits well in the history of religion and churches, whereas the concept of social reform seems to belong more to the vocabulary of the modern welfare states. Christian charity found itself, during the long nineteenth century, within the maelstrom of social turmoil. In this context of social unrest, although charity managed to confirm its relevance, it was also subjected to fierce criticism,...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 312 pagina's (PDF, 31 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Andrea Alciati Andreae Alciati contra vitam monasticam epistula

  Criticism of monastic life by one of Europe's major Renaissance figures. In his letter Against Monastic Life (1514-17) Andrea Alciato, an Italian jurist and writer famous for his Emblemata, urges his friend Bernardus Mattius to reconsider his choice of monastic life. Alciato makes his argument by criticizing religious superstition, the Church's hierarchy, and monastic practices, particularly the Franciscans' hypocrisy, wealth, and divisiveness. Instead, he defends a stoic, civic humanism. Due to...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | Latijn | 144 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Vera Hajtó Milk sauce and paprika

  migration, childhood and memories of the interwar Belgian-Hungarian Child Relief Project

  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 migration history. Milk Sauce and Paprika tells the story of Hungarian children who were sent to Belgium in the framework of a humanitarian project between 1923 and 1927. Based on a wide variety of sources such as official documents, contemporary newspapers, photographs, family correspondences, biographies...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 298 pagina's (PDF, 4,4 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• John Barclay Icon animorum or The mirror of minds

  Original Latin text with English translation on facing pages. In this essay from 1614 the Neo-Latin poet, translator, and commentator John Barclay describes the manners and mores of his European contemporaries. He derives the sources of an individual's peculiarities of behavior and temperament from the 'genius' - the individual character created by each person's upbringing, time of life, and profession. Barclay likewise describes each nation's genius, its national character, and provides some of...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | Latijn | 380 pagina's (PDF, 1,7 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

  E-book

• Kadoc Sign or symptom?

  exceptional corporeal phenomena in religion and medicine in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

  Religion and science on paranormal events. Described as 'the hand of God', as 'pathological' or even as 'a clever trick', exceptional corporeal phenomena such as miraculous cures, stigmata, and incorrupt corpses have triggered heated debates in the past. Depending on their definition as either 'supernatural', 'psycho-somatic' or 'fraudulent', different authorities have sought to explain these enigmatic occurrences by stimulating inquiries and claiming jurisdiction over them. As a consequence, separate...

  Non-fictie

  Engels | 208 pagina's (PDF, 9,8 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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