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Sandra Cordier De botten van de Borinage
de iguanodons van Bernissart (van 125 miljoen voor Christus tot vandaag)
Geschiedenis van de vondst van fossielen van enkele tientallen iguanodons in de Borinage (België) in de negentiende eeuw en de interpretaties die daaraan sindsdien zijn gegeven.
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Nederlands | 122 pagina's (ePub2, 22 MB) | Vrijdag, Antwerpen | 2017
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Regina Grüter Kwesties van leven en dood
het Nederlandse Rode Kruis in de Tweede Wereldoorlog
Sinds haar oprichting in 1867 was het Nederlandse Rode Kruis nooit zo populair als direct na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Het aantal leden maakte in de maanden na de bevrijding een ongekende groei door. Tegelijkertijd kreeg de organisatie de nodige kritiek te verduren. Het Rode Kruis had vervolgde joden en politieke gevangenen - zowel in de concentratiekampen als bij hun terugkeer - in de steek gelaten. In de hoop zijn humanitaire taak volgens de Rode Kruisconventies te kunnen blijven uitvoeren nam het...
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Nederlands | 670 pagina's (ePub2, 14 MB) | Balans, Amsterdam | 2017
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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...
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Engels | 298 pagina's (PDF, 4,4 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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Scottish Latin authors in print up to 1700
a short-title list
The first-ever bibliography of Scottish Latin authors in print. The work of the Latin writers of Scotland has suffered a neglect which its variety, copiousness, and intrinsic interest do not deserve. Their importance, and the importance of Latin as a literary language, is beginning to be recognized by scholars. Researchers from the universities of Glasgow and St. Andrews have now prepared the first-ever bibliography of Scottish Latin in print - unique both in its focus on the many works written in...
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Engels | 400 pagina's (PDF, 2 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, 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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Veerle Rots Prehension and hafting traces on flint tools
a methodology
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 expertise. Although the identification of stone tool use based on microscopic analysis was introduced in the 1960s, distinguishing between hand-held and hafted tool use has remained a more difficult issue. This...
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Engels | 296 pagina's (PDF, 4,9 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Handheld XRF for art and archaeology
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 instruments have given researchers in art conservation and archaeology the opportunity to study a broad range of materials with greater accessibility and flexibility than ever before. In addition, the low relative...
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Engels | 480 pagina's (PDF, 17 MB) | Leuven 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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The early modern cultures of neo-Latin drama
The vitality and power of expression of Neo-Latin Drama. The essays in this collection all illustrate the vitality of Neo-Latin drama in early modern Europe, arising from its productive combination of classical models with deep-rooted vernacular traditions. While the plays were often composed in the context of a school or university setting, the dramatists seldom neglected the need to appeal to a broad audience, including non-Latinists. Yet the use of Latin, and the ambiguity of a plurivocal literary...
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Engels | 232 pagina's (PDF, 2,9 MB) | Universitaire Pers Leuven, Leuven | 2017
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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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Children who changed the world
Children Who Changed the World What do Malala Yousafzai and Anne Frank have in common? Both opened the eyes of the world to the injustice done to them as children. Malala deliberately set out to fight for her right to education. While Anne Frank unwittingly became a symbol of the effect of war on the lives of children. Children Who Changed the World, tells the stories of more than twenty children who have opened the worlds eyes to serious problems in society, and who have contributed to the solution....
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Engels | ePub2, 21 MB | PixelPerfect Publications, The Hague | 2017
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Ann Van Baelen The lower to middle palaeolithic transition in northwestern Europe
evidence from Kesselt-Op de Schans
A well‐preserved early Middle Palaeolithic site set against a wider northwestern European context The shift from Lower to Middle Palaeolithic in northwestern Europe (dated to around 300,000-250,000 years ago) remains poorly understood and underexplored compared to more recent archaeological transitions. During this period, stone tool technologies underwent significant changes but the limited number of known sites and the general low spatio‐temporal resolution of the archaeological record in many...
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Engels | 336 pagina's (PDF, 30 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Juan Maldonado Spanish humanism on the verge of the picaresque: Juan Maldonado's Ludus chartarum, Pastor bonus, and Bacchanalia
The 16th-century humanist Juan Maldonado in his Latin essays foreshadows the Spanish picaresque. Like Erasmus, with whom he corresponded,Maldonado advocated the use of Latin in a wide-range of activities. Maldonado's Pastor Bonus, a lengthy open letter to a bishop, reviews in a vivid and satirical style the abuses of the churchmen in his diocese. His ludus chartarum is framed as a colloquium similar to Vives' on the subject, entertaining while teaching a Latin terminology for card playing. His Bacchanalia,...
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Engels | Latijn | 298 pagina's (PDF, 14 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017
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Journael van een scheepschirurgijn
van Blaeuschuyt ende Roode Loop
Op basis van historische bronnen geconstrueerd reisverslag van een scheepschirurgijn die deelnam aan de scheepstocht onder leiding van Olivier van Noort om de wereld (1598-1601).
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Nederlands | 156 pagina's | Ad. Donker, Rotterdam | 2017
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Tineke Koning De verloofde van mijn moeder
het oorlogsverhaal van Johannes Tiesinga en Willy Boelens
Familiegeschiedenis van een vrouw uit een tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog anti-Duitse familie, van wie de vriend toetrad tot tot de Waffen-SS en sneuvelde in Rusland.
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Nederlands | 63 pagina's | BraveNewBooks, [Rotterdam] | 2017
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Hédi Fried Vragen die ik kreeg over de Holocaust
In ‘Vragen die ik kreeg over de Holocaust’ beantwoordt Auschwitz-overlevende Hédi Fried vragen die ze kreeg over de Jodenvervolging tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Fried reist al ruim dertig jaar langs middelbare scholen en universiteiten om over de Holocaust, antisemitisme en racisme te vertellen. In dit belangrijke boek beantwoordt ze de vragen die haar gesteld werden en die haar het meest bij zijn gebleven. Op openhartige, indringende en levenslustige wijze vertelt Fried over de dag dat haar...
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Nederlands | 117 pagina's (ePub2, 0,3 MB) | Atlas Contact, Amsterdam | 2018
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Els van Diggele We haten elkaar meer dan de Joden
tweedracht in de Palestijnse maatschappij
Journalistieke reportage over de onderlinge conflicten tussen de Palestijnen.
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Nederlands | 305 pagina's (ePub2, 2,1 MB) | Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam | 2017
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Erik Schumacher 1942
oorlog op alle fronten
In januari 1942 wordt Nederlands-Indië bezet door Japan. Het is een nieuwe teleurstelling en schok voor de Nederlandse bevolking. In diezelfde maand worden op de Wannsee-conferentie concrete plannen uitgewerkt om de Europese Joden massaal te vermoorden en in juli beginnen de eerste massadeportaties. Ook verhardt de economische exploitatie van het bezette Nederland, de arbeidsinzet raakt ieder gezin. 1942 is het derde deel van een zesdelige serie over Nederland in de Tweede Wereldoorlog en de...
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Nederlands | 288 pagina's (ePub2, 29 MB) | Spectrum, Houten | 2017
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2017