Leuven University Press
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The analysis of translated texts and investigations into the cognitive mechanisms involved in the process of translation are burgeoning areas of research in translation studies. Personality Matters ventures into a previously uncharted territory in its exploration of the psychological and cognitive c...
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Knighthood and Society in the High Middle Ages
David Crouch; Jeroen Deploige
- Leuven university press
- 15 Mei 2019
- 9789461662750
In popular imagination few phenomena are as strongly associated with medieval society as knighthood and chivalry. At the same time, and due to a long tradition of differing national perspectives and ideological assumptions, few phenomena have continued to be the object of so much academic debate. In...
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Worlds in a Museum
Louvre Abu Dhabi; École du Louvre
- Leuven university press
- 24 November 2020
- 9789461663320
Held on the occasion of Louvre Abu Dhabi's first anniversary, the symposium Worlds in a Museum addressed the topic of museums in the era of globalisation, exploring contemporary museology and the preservation and presentation of culture within the context of changing societies. Departing from the hi...
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Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics
Mark McKinney
- Leuven university press
- 5 Januari 2021
- 9789461663719
Postcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954-62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the end of the formal dismantling of French colonial empire in 1962 up to the present. French ...
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Photography was long regarded as a "middle-brow" art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the millennium, it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book-part institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and practices-Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of phot...
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New multicultural identities in Europe
Erkan Toguslu; Johan Leman; Ismail Mesut Sezgin
- Leuven university press
- 30 Januari 2014
- 9789461661302
Multiculturalism in present-day Europe. How to understand Europe's post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic transitions on a transnational scale...
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Lors est ce jour grant joie nee
Michèle Goyens; Werner Verbeke
- Leuven university press
- 1 Juli 2009
- 9789461661128
This volume gathers eight contributions regarding the French medieval language and literature. They are a selection of papers presented during a colloquium organized in honor of Prof. Emeritus Willy Van Hoecke, whose passion for French diachronic linguistics and medieval literature has driven him to...
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The transformation of the christian churches in Western Europe (1945-2000)
Leo Kenis; Jaak Billiet; Patrick Pasture
- Leuven university press
- 1 Januari 2010
- 9789461661081
Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalised religion is becoming increasingly marginalised. Some scholars, however, speak of a repositioning of the Ch...
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New Paths, the seventh volume in the Writings of the Orpheus Institute, is a result of the third International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory. Five renowned scholars discuss a variety of topics related to romanticism, focusing especially on the years 1800-1840. In a much-needed historical and crit...
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Opera philosophica et theologica - II,2 Reportatio IIA, qq.13-27
Franciscus de Marchia
- Leuven university press
- 8 December 2010
- 9789461660916
The texts edited in this volume deal with angelology and anthropology, and particularly with the nature and the functions of immaterial substances like angels and the human rational soul. Marchia discusses such controversial issues as universal hylomorphism, i.e., whether angels and the rational sou...
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Handheld XRF for art and archaeology
Aaron N. Shugar; Jennifer L. Mass
- Leuven university press
- 20 Maart 2013
- 9789461660695
Applications, possibilities, and limitations of handheld XRF in art conservation and archaeology. Over the last decade the technique of X-ray fluorescence has evolved, from dependence on laboratory-based standalone units to field use of portable and lightweight handheld devices. These portable in...
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A small nation in the turmoil of the Second World War
Herman Van der Wee; Monique Verbreyt
- Leuven university press
- 7 April 2017
- 9789461660527
Based on intensive research in the archives of six countries, this monograph presents an in-depth analysis of Belgium's monetary and financial history during the Second World War. Exploring Belgium's financial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States...
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Isotopes in vitreous materials
Patrick Degryse; Julian Henderson; Greg Hodgins
- Leuven university press
- 20 Maart 2013
- 9789461660510
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. ...
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Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of "reading a dark trace", thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth on the problem of human guilt. The sense of guilt is indeed a trace that leads deep into the individual's mental...
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Gilles Deleuze is among the twentieth century's most important philosophers of difference. The style of his extended oeuvre is so extremely dense and cryptic that reading and appreciating it require an unusual degree of openness and a willingness to enter a complicated but extremely rich system of t...
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Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I - Nagada II
Gwenola Graff
- Leuven university press
- 20 Maart 2013
- 9789461660329
Ce travail propose une nouvelle approche de l'iconographie prédynastique égyptienne. Il s'agit d'étudier les vases à décorations complexes de la culture de Nagada. Le travail présenté ici regroupe pour la première fois le plus vaste ensemble possible de ces objets. L'ensemble fournit près de 650 doc...
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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 inter...
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Francisci de Marchia Opera Philosophica et Theologica II, I
Russell L. Friedmann; Tiziane Suarez-Nani; William Duba; Emmanuel Babey; Girard J. Etzkorn
- Leuven university press
- 20 Maart 2013
- 9789461660299
This commentary exists in two versions: The major version is contained in 17 manuscripts and the critical edition of it is being prepared by a team of specialists led by Prof. Tiziana Suarez-Nani of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. A minor version is found in one Vatican manuscript and is b...
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The soul-body problem at Paris ca 1200-1250
Magdalena Bieniak
- Leuven university press
- 20 Maart 2013
- 9789461660251
The soul-body problem was among the most controversial issues discussed in 13th century Europe, and it continues to capture much attention today as the quest to understand human identity becomes more and more urgent. What made the discussion about this problem particularly interesting in the scholas...
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Ancient Perspectives on Aristotle's De Anima
Gerd Van Riel; Pierre Destrée
- Leuven university press
- 21 Maart 2013
- 9789461660244
Aristotle's treatise On the Soul figures among the most influential texts in the intellectual history of the West. It is the first systematic treatise on the nature and functioning of the human soul, presenting Aristotle's authoritative analyses of, among others, sense perception, imagination, memor...
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Crossing cultures
Tom Toremans; Walter Verschueren
- Leuven university press
- 20 Maart 2013
- 9789461660138
Crossing Cultures brings together scholars in the field of reception and translation studies to chart the individual and institutional agencies that determined the reception of Anglophone authors in the Dutch and Belgian literary fields in the course of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twenti...
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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 professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden r...
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The European company law action plan revisited
Koen Geens; Klaus J. Hopt
- Leuven university press
- 20 Maart 2013
- 9789461660084
The harmonisation of company law has always been on the agenda of the European Union. Besides the protection of third parties affected by business transactions, the founders had two other objectives: first, promoting freedom of establishment, and second, preventing the abuse of such freedom. In fact...
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Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools
Veerle Rots
- Leuven university press
- 21 Maart 2017
- 9789461660060
The capacity to mount stone tools in or on a handle is considered an important innovation in past human behaviour. The insight to assemble two different materials (organic and inorganic) into a better functioning entity indicates the presence of the required mental capacity and technological experti...
