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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Neo-Latin commentaries and the management of knowledge in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period (1400-1700)

Profound study of one of the most important genres within Humanist scholarship. Between 1400 and 1700 the political, religious, intellectual, and even geographic landscape was profoundly changed by the Reformation, Humanism, the rise of empirical science, the invention of printing technology, and the discovery of the New World. The late medieval and early modern intellectuals felt an urgent need to respond to the changes they were involved in, and to come to a revision and re-authorisation of knowledge....

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Duits | Engels | 540 pagina's (PDF, 59 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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Aulularia and other inversions of Plautus

First critical edition of Burmeister's newly discovered Aulularia. Joannes Burmeister of Lüneburg (1576-1638) was among the greatest Neo-Latin poets of the German Baroque. His masterpieces, now mostly lost, are Christian 'inversions' of the Classical Roman comedies of Plautus. With only minimal changes in language and none in meter, each transforms Plautus's pagan plays into comedies based on biblical themes. Fascinating in their own right, they also bring back to attention forgotten genres of Renaissance...

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Duits | Engels | Latijn | 292 pagina's (PDF, 1,9 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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Historische Kring Huessen Grenspassages

het Gelders-Kleefse grensgebied voor en na de grensregeling van 1816-1817; das geldrisch-klevische Grenzgebier vor und nach der Grenzregulierung von 1816-1817

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Duits | Nederlands | 192 pagina's | Historische Kring Huessen, Tiel | 2017

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Edo Wilbert Oostebrink Die Anfänge der Merowingerherrschaft am Niederrhein

Gregor von Tours, die Thidrekssaga und die Hervararsaga als Quelle

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Duits | 208 pagina's | [Oostebrink], Delft | 2017

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Stefan Bitterle Nostalgic journeys

from the Orient Express to ocean liners

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Duits | Engels | 223 pagina's | teNeues Publishing Group, Augsburg/München | 2022

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