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The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history. History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This b...

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What are musical works? How are they constructed in our minds? Which material things allow us to speak about them in the first place? Does a specific way of conceiving musical works limit their performative potentials? Which alternative, more prod...

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Reference work for musicologists, music theorists, performers, and music lovers Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. The Book of Requiems presents in-depth essays on the most important w...

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This book addresses themes in the newly emerging discipline of philosophy of chemistry, in particular issues in connection with discussions in general philosophy of science on natural kinds, reduction and ceteris paribus laws. The philosophical is...

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Decisively shaped by the turbulent atmosphere of war, occupation and resistance, the years 1943-1955 gave rise to a most unusual flowering of progressive initiatives in Catholic politics, theology and apostolic missions. Though suffering severe se...

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More often than not, humanist, scholarly and 'scientific' correspondences from the early modern period have been analyzed from a rather narrow point of view. They were either exploited to reveal new biographical and historical evidence o...

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The art of persuasion, as practised today in political debate as well as in the courts of law, has been developed in the rhetorical tradition, but its authors have disappeared from view. One of them was Quintilian, who wrote his Institutio oratori...

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A guide to the repertory of medieval narrative sources focusing on the southern Low Countries created by some medievalists of the KU Leuven and the University of Ghent. This work analyses more than 2150 titles in the source, with a focus on monast...

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Henry of Ghent's Summa, art. 1-5, composed probably before 1276, are the opening articles of Henry's grand masterpiece, his Quaestiones ordinariae or Summa. This Summa was, from what Henry himself indicated, to be in two sections: a sect...

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Reduced Price! Now only 10,00 instead of 25,00 In this photo book, Els Vanden Meersch investigates the latent presence of violence and dominance in the everyday reality of the urban fabric. Subtle images contain combinations of banal details, thro...

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Provides a link to research findings on learning disabilities with instructional methods and teaching practices. This book brings together contributions about the cognitive, meta-cognitive and socio-emotional correlations of learning disabilities....

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Using data of a representative sample of married husbands and wives in the Netherlands, this book examines the factors and processes underlying marital satisfaction. It argues that the communication between the partners is essential in understandi...

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Constitutes a collective output of a 'research community', which was initiated to contribute to the advancement of theory and methodology relating to the design, implementation, and evaluation of powerful learning environments. This book aims to p...

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Freud's ideas on infantile sexuality can only be understood as constructions that are necessary to understand the psychopathological formations of adults. To understand what it means to be human, says Freud, we must analyse the extreme, paradigmat...

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In the first part about the specific Stoic doctrine on moral progress (prokope) attention is first given to the subtle view developed by the early Stoics, who categorically denied the existence of any mean between vice and virtue, and yet succeede...

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Reduced Price! Now only 10,00 instead of 21,00 This book is the outcome of a collaborative research project between LGC, the Leuven Museumsite and STUK Arts Centre. On the occasion of the centennial anniversary of Constantin Meunier's death, ...

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Reduced Price! Now only 10,00 instead of 28,00 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 au...

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The book elucidates Henry of Ghent's philosophical and theological system with special reference to his trinitarian writings. It demonstrates the fundamental role of the Trinity in Henry's philosophy and theology. It also shows how Henry...

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What is the place of Critical Realism today, given the fact that both realism and commitment in art have become highly problematic notions since at least several decades? Realism in the first place appears to be relegated to the museum of pre-mode...

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Henry of Ghent's Quodlibet XV, his last Quodlibet before his death, was composed sometime after the fall of Acre (May 10, 1291) and Nicolas IV's letter Illuminet super nos (sent on August 1, 1291), both of which are referred to in this Q...

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This is a collection of essays based on lectures presented at the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory on "Historical Theory, Performance, and Meaning in Baroque Music". The often complex connections and intersections betwe...

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The Debate about Colour Naming in 19th Century German Philology contains eleven essays illustrating the intensity of interest in color naming and categorization that arose in nineteenth-century Germany. The themes of each chapter vary in their emp...

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This book examines the important but largely neglected issue of the interrelation between Platonism and Stoicism in Ancient Philosophy. Several renowned specialists in the fields of Stoic and Platonic analyse the intricate mutual influences betwee...

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