The Arts Books
Peeters Publishers Tegen Brand Gewapend: Twee Eeuwen Brandweer En
Book SynopsisHet handvol militaire brandweermannen dat in 1807 in Leuven werd ingezet om er de orde te handhaven, is tweehonderd jaar later uitgegroeid tot een professionele hulpdienst met meer dan honderd manschappen die stuk voor stuk het meest geavanceerde materiaal hanteren. Een korps dat bovendien 24 uur op 24 uur paraat staat en hulp biedt ver buiten de oude ringmuren van de stad. Ordehandhaving behoort al lang niet meer tot haar takenpakket. Brandpreventie en -bestrijding uiteraard wel, samen met nog meer dan twintig andere opdrachten zoals het redden van drenkelingen, het vrijmaken van de openbare weg en het verdelgen van wespen. Aan de vooravond van een aangekondigde en ingrijpende brandweerhervorming in Belgie is het altijd nuttig om eens achterom te kijken. In dit jubileumboek kan men dan ook uitvoerig kennismaken met de geschiedenis van het Leuvense brandweerkorps in al haar aspecten en met de talrijke 'pompiers' die al tweehonderd jaar de veiligheid in Leuven garanderen. Uiteraard komt ook even de brandbestrijding tijdens het Ancien Regime aan bod, een periode waarin het vuur door vrijwilligers bestreden werd met slechts eenvoudige middelen ter beschikking zoals ladders, brandhaken en emmers.
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Peeters Publishers Classical Mythology in the Netherlands in the Age
Book SynopsisMythology has played an important role in the age of Renaissance and Baroque. The classical myths have provided themes and subjects for the arts in their different expressions: painting, sculpture, literature, music, theatre, ...Mythological figures and stories have often served as moralistic examples, in bono or in malo, and as allegorical points of reference, e.g. in education. The pluridisciplinary study of these phenomena throws light upon the intellectual climate of the period. La mythologie a joue un role important aux temps de la Renaissance et du Baroque. Les mythes classiques ont procure des themes et des sujets pour les arts dans leurs expressions differentes : peinture, sculpture, litterature, musique, theatre, ...Les figures et les histoires mythologiques ont servi souvent d'exemples moralisateurs, en bon ou en mal, et comme points de reference allegoriques, entre autres dans l'education. L'etude pluridisciplinaire de ces phenomenes eclaire le climat intellectuel de l'epoque.
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Peeters Publishers Epistulae Antiquae V: Actes du ve Colloque
Book SynopsisLe present volume, Epistulae antiquae V, contient les communications presentees a l'occasion du Ve Colloque tourangeau sur " L'epistolaire antique et ses prolongements europeens ", qui s'est tenu a l'Universite Francois-Rabelais de Tours les 6, 7 et 8 novembre 2006. Il s'inscrit dans la ligne des quatre precedents ouvrages de la serie, qui donnent une suite ecrite a des rencontres bi-annuelles entre universitaires francais et etrangers reunis par ce sujet d'etude commun. Fidele a ses perspectives pluridisciplinaire, diachronique et synchronique a la fois, il regroupe des interventions portant sur la lettre, ses formes et ses contenus. Le contexte historique, ancre dans l'Antiquite classique, nous met en contact avec les differentes facettes du genre epistolaire au sein des cultures grecque et romaine, mais egalement a des epoques plus recentes dont notre Europe est l'heritiere. Les sujets abordes, divers et complementaires, portent aussi bien sur le discours et ses modalites que sur la specificite de certains epistoliers et de leur temps.
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Peeters Publishers (In)site Sagalassos
Book Synopsis(In)site Sagalassos is het eerste fotoboek dat verschijnt over de archeologische site van Sagalassos. Al 18 jaar onderzoekt een interdisciplinair-archeologisch team van de KULeuven onder leiding van Prof. Marc Waelkens de antieke stad in zuidwest Turkije. Sinds 2003 fotgraferen Bruno Vandermeulen en Danny Veys de vondsten en structuren van de stad. Als fotografen bekijken zij de site met andere ogen dan de archeoloog. Dit boek is een fotografische impressie van de opgraving met haar monumenten en wijken. Zij toont de stad op een andere, verrassende manier. Door de combinatie van grote en kleine foto's, details en overzichten, architectuur en landschap wordt dit boek tot een boeiend geheel verweven. Het fotoboek wordt ingeleid door Marc Waelkens en bevat een historisch overzicht van de opgraving en de site. Meer informatie is beschikbaar op de website www.arts.kuleuven.be/fotolab/insite
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Peeters Publishers Northern Voices: Essays on Old Germanic and
Book SynopsisThis book contains a wealth of new essays on many aspects of Germanic Philology, and the range reflects the scholarly activity of the dedicatee of this festschrift. Section I contains articles on historical philology as this relates to the Old Germanic languages and literatures; Section II contains essays on various aspects of Frisian and Frisian studies; Section III is devoted to the relationship between the Germanic and the Balto-Finnic languages; the articles in Section IV consist of applications of the methods and insights of modern linguistics to the study of the Germanic languages.
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Peeters Publishers Marian Pilgrimage Sites in Brabant: A
Book SynopsisThis analytical bibliography, compiled with the support of the University of Antwerp, represents a first, important step toward broader studies concerning the nature, function, and significance of propagandistic materials that have been printed and distributed since the seventeenth century in connection with pilgrimage sites in the Southern Netherlands. Two and a half centuries (from 1600 to 1850) of publications are documented. This is an intriguing period for such a study because Catholic clergy made great use of printed propaganda materials for their (often successful) attempts to revitalize pilgrimages as part of the Counter-Reformation. Consequently, there was a new surge of such publications in the Southern Netherlands as of 1600 that prevailed until the early nineteenth century, when changing ecclesiastical views of how one should experience the Catholic faith led many local clergy to publish new types of pilgrimage books. As tens of thousands of pilgrimage texts were printed in this period, only one essential sub-group of these publications could be featured here, namely those related to Marian pilgrimage sites in the current provinces of Antwerp, Vlaams-Brabant, and the county of Brussels. The resulting bibliography reflects the holdings of numerous collections and provides, for each publication whenever possible, a full transcription of the title page, the collation of the book, and notes on whether or not illustrations, dedicatory texts, and personal notations by previous owners are present. This work consequently provides a useful base of knowledge for those interested in a wide variety of topics pertaining both to the production of devotional literature and the extensive popular hold these pilgrimage sites had on people in and beyond the Southern Netherlands.
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Peeters Publishers Reconstructing the Epic: Cross-readings of the
Book SynopsisThe Trojan war inspired a multifaceted mythological tradition which evolved through a variety of artistic devices - oral and written poetry, prose, iconography. In the open system of Trojan war narratives, Homer represents the dominant line, while the cyclic, lyric and tragic poets offer a host of alternative versions. Reconstructing the Epic builds on the premise that the reception of the Trojan myth by the Hellenistic avant-garde reflects their aesthetic and ideological distancing from the elevated genres of the past, particularly the epic. The book monitors the various stages of this modernistic reaction to the literary tradition: the avoidance of the Trojan muthos as narrated in the Homeric epics; the rewriting of the Trojan stories which derive from the Epic Cycle, lyric and dramatic poetry; the incorporation of Trojan episodes into idylls, elegies and epyllia; and the working out of a new Trojan myth recounting, among other things, how the archetypal war hero, Achilles, is eventually transformed into an ardent lover.
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Peeters Publishers Brussel En De Vlaamse Rand, Een Verhaal Van
Book SynopsisWaarom spreken Franstaligen over de peripherie bruxelloise en over een carcan flamand rond Brussel en waarom willen de Vlamingen de Brusselse olievlek 'indijken' of 'indammen'? Waarom vragen de Franstalige partijen de territoriale uitbreiding van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest en waarom wordt dit langs Vlaamse kant radicaal afgewezen? Deze tegenstellingen zijn te lapidair, maar maken duidelijk dat de twee grootste taalgemeenschappen in Belgie een andere visie hebben over de Vlaamse Rand en over de relatie van dit ommeland met de hoofdstad. Hoe komt dat? Welke historische evoluties liggen daaraan ten grondslag? Dit tweede nummer in de reeks 'Accenten uit de geschiedenis van Vlaams-Brabant' verschijnt in opdracht van de provincie Vlaams-Brabant en is een realisatie van het ADVN, archief-, documentatie- en onderzoekscentrum. In het boek zijn ook een aantal foto's opgenomen uit de reportage die persfotograaf Michiel Hendryckx speciaal voor deze gelegenheid maakte en die her en der in de provincie zal worden tentoongesteld. Zijn lens registreerde tot zijn eigen verwondering het nog sterk landelijk karakter van de streek.
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Peeters Publishers La Chronique D'Apollodore Et Le Pseudo-Skymnos:
Book SynopsisOn sait que la Chronique d'Apollodore d'Athenes, dont il ne reste que des fragments, a joue un role fondamental dans la tradition chronographique concernant les philosophes, les poetes, les prosateurs. A-t-elle ete importante egalement pour la transmission des dates de fondation des cites? Est-ce sur elle que s'est appuye l'auteur inconnu de l'ouvrage qu'on appelle la Periegese du Pseudo-Skymnos, lorsqu'il a voulu dater les ktiseis des cites du Pont-Euxin? Voila les questions qui ont ete a l'origine de cette recherche. Pour y repondre, il a fallu poser d'autres questions encore, et notamment: Quelle etait l'attitude du Ps.-Skymnos a l'egard de son contemporain Apollodore? Quelle etait sa maniere de travailler? Comment expliquer les ressemblances entre son expose et Ora maritima d'Avienus? Pourquoi, tout en pretendant decrire le monde du present, decrit-il en fait le monde de jadis? Quels etaient les aspects du passe envisages dans la Chronique d'Apollodore? Comment les informations y etaient-elles organisees? Quelle etait la place qu'y occupaient les fragments conserves par l'Academicorum philosophorum index Herculanensis? Cette recherche vise a eclairer le travail de deux intellectuels atheniens - d'un grand erudit et d'un litterateur mineur - du temps de l'effondrement politique du monde hellenistique. Elle entend aussi contribuer a l'etude de la chronographie grecque, a la geographie historique et a la critique du texte de plusieurs auteurs.
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Peeters Publishers The Beloved Mothertongue: Ethnolinguistic
Book SynopsisDuring the long nineteenth century, the Herderian motto that language reflects the soul of the nation proved to be a pivotal agent in forming ethnies, nations and national territories as well as in excluding linguistic minorities. In the spring of 2005, the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities hosted a workshop on the subject of Ethnolinguistic nationalism in the Netherlands, Flanders and the Scandinavian countries. The workshop was organized and attended by a select, interdisciplinary group of scholars whose papers are presented in this volume, XXXIII in the series Groningen Studies in Cultural Change. The volume opens with introductory and theoretical surveys on the theme of nationalism, followed by critical surveys of each of the above-mentioned regions and nations. The contributions to the volume consist of the discussion and development of some interesting new fields of research on the subject.
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Peeters Publishers Looking for Mithra in Malta
Book SynopsisMany aspects of the mystery cult of Mithra remain enigmatic. It was a belief system that touched the hearts and minds of all manner of people, rich and poor, in the early centuries AD. Secretive, private and exclusive enclaves of believers infiltrated numerous regions of the Roman Empire, assembling in caves and cellars, where strange, sometimes terrifying, initiation rites were carried out. Never before has the evidence for the mysteries of Mithra been traced to the Maltese archipelago. This group of islands in the central Mediterranean fell under Roman domination, but their somewhat isolated location may have appealed to followers of Mithra. Cult artefacts and possible places of Mithraic worship in the islands have been presented here fore the first time.
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Peeters Publishers Friars, Scribes, and Corpses: A Marian
Book SynopsisGilbert Lazard, "Un salut amical a Philippe Gignoux"; Gherardo Gnoli, "Un demi siecle"; Guitty Azarpay, "Imagery of the Sogdian den"; Sebastian Brock, "The contributions of Philippe Gignoux to Syriac studies"; Carlo G. Cereti, "Some aspects of Philippe Gignoux's contribution to Zoroastrian studies"; Frantz Grenet, "Quelques nouvelles notes sur Kerdir et "sa" vision"; Rika Gyselen, "Sceaux, monnaies et argenterie dans l'?uvre de Philippe Gignoux"; Philip Huyse, "L'epigraphie moyen-perse et l'histoire sassanide dans l'?uvre de Philippe Gignoux"; Christelle Jullien, "Chretiens d'Iran. Entre hagiographie et histoire"; Florence Jullien, "La Passion syriaque de Mar 'Abda. Quelques relations entre chretiens et mazdeens"; Antonio Panaino, "Apocalittica, Escatologia e Sciamanismo nell'opera iranologica di Ph. Gignoux"; Rudiger Schmitt, "Philippe Gignoux' Beitrag zur iranischen Anthroponomastik"; Michel Tardieu, "Les metaphores du temps"; Dieter Weber, "Philippe Gignoux' Beitrag zur Interpretation der Dokumente des "Pahlavi Archive" in Berkeley, CA".
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Peeters Publishers The Quest for the Original
Book SynopsisThe Symposium XVI for the Study of Underdrawing and Technology in Painting. The Quest for the Original, Bruges-September 2006, was organized by the Laboratoire d'etude des 'uvres d'art of the Universite catholique de Louvain, in collaboration with Illuminare, Centre for the Study of Illuminated Manuscripts of the KULeuven and KIKIRPA, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Brussels. Articles are on painting of the Low Countries, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark...between medieval and modern times, not only easelpainting, but also bookillumination, painting on glas and ceramics and framing in the Southern Netherlands (15th until 17th c.). Some methodological issues are discussed. Molly Faries accepted to share her experience for an update on equipments for examination of paintings in the Infrared. The organizers had received for presentation in Bruges more interesting papers than they could accept; they include some of them in this publication. The volume also presents a bibliography in the infrared studies for the years 2005-2007.
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Peeters Publishers At the Crossroads of Art and Religion:
Book SynopsisSince the 'turn to the subject' in modernity, aesthetic experiences have become crucial in the creation of meaning. This explains why art and religion are becoming increasingly intermingled in late modern Western culture. The search for meaning is no longer confined to traditional religious settings and it is especially in art that people are looking for moral and spiritual significance. Religion is being aestheticised while art is being spiritualised. This volume contains studies on the interface between art and religion. Scholars from art studies, theology, philosophy and psychology of religion address the following questions: What psychological and religious functions does art fulfil? What are the similarities and differences between aesthetic and religious experiences? How does the aestheticising of religion affect theological thinking? How does the spiritualising of art affect artistic practices and theory? Case studies are taken from literature, visual art, film and opera, both from 'high' and popular culture. Among others, there are chapters on J.M. Coetzee's novel Waiting for the Barbarians, Richard Wagner's operas, the Harry Potter books and the concept of beauty from a theological perspective. The contributors all highlight the crucial role of human imaginative capabilities and the capacity of art to open up wider horizons of meaning.
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Peeters Publishers Nature and Science in Hellenistic Poetry
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers of the 'Groningen Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry 8: Nature and Science' (Groningen 2006). During the workshop a first draft of the papers was commented on by an international group of specialists in the field of Hellenistic poetry. This volume deals with the interaction between 'nature and science' and Hellenistic poetry, particularly the ways in which poets were inspired and stimulated by the results of science and incorporated them into their work. In the Hellenistic period the fields of nature and science on the one hand and scholarship and poetry on the other hand touch and overlap to a large extent and the boundaries between science and poetry were not as straight and clear as they are today. The articles in this volume refine the general picture somewhat further. They focus on various authors and topics, e.g. Aratus, Nicander and Callimachus, medicine, astronomy, and geography. The volume is part of a series. Every two years a 'Workshop on Hellenistic Poetry' takes place at the University of Groningen, the papers of which are published in the series 'Hellenistica Groningana'.
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Peeters Publishers Campanae Lovanienses: Het Klokkenpatrimonium van
Book SynopsisKlokken zijn meestal niet opvallend zichtbaar aanwezig; hoorbaar zijn ze echter des te beter. Door de jaren, soms eeuwen heen hebben zij hun stem laten horen, en zijn zo een belangrijke sfeerbepalende factor geweest voor hun onmiddellijke omgeving. Vroeger bepaalden zij het ritme van de dag: niet alleen door middel van de uurslag, maar ook met bijvoorbeeld het Angelusluiden en het luiden voor de mis. Klokken hadden bovendien een signaalfunctie: bij het sluiten van de poort, bij brandalarm en bij gerechtelijke beslissingen werden respectievelijk de poortklok, de brandklok en de banklok geluid. Het belang van grote gebeurtenissen werd onderstreept met klokgelui of door het spelen op de beiaard. De maatschappelijke betekenis van klokken is nu veranderd. Al blijft de traditie van het klokkenluiden nog bestaan op zon- en feestdagen, de brandklok heeft haar functie verloren en ook het Angelusklokje wordt op steeds minder plaatsen gehoord. Veel kerken en kapellen worden geleidelijk gesloten, verlaten of verkocht. Hierdoor bestaat de kans dat klokken en torenuurwerken worden verwaarloosd of worden opgekocht door handelaars en antiquairs. In andere gevallen wil men bestaande installaties moderniseren of vervangen, wat vaak leidt tot vermindering of verarming van het klokkengelui. Hierdoor staan talloze historische mechanismen werkloos weg te roesten. Met deze uitgave publiceert Campanae Lovanienses haar inventaris van de klokken van Leuven. Het doel van de inventaris is het campanologisch erfgoed te beschermen en te bewaren voor toekomstige generaties. Hiervoor werden de klokken opgezocht, hun afmetingen en klankstructuur bepaald, en de versieringen vastgelegd met afwrijfsels en foto's. Het is de eerste publicatie in haar soort in ons land, een stevig opgebouwd en kwalitatief hoogstaand boekwerk dat zowel aantrekkelijk is voor campanologische specialisten als iedereen die het Leuvens erfgoed in zijn hart draagt.
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Peeters Publishers Dansmelodieen uit de Vlaamse Volksmuziektraditie
Book SynopsisHubert Boone ontsluit met zijn nieuw publicatie Dansmelodieen uit de Vlaamse volksmuziektraditie een belangrijk - en grotendeels onbekend - repertoire uit ons muzikaal erfgoed. Achtereenvolgens worden de Mazurka, de Redowa, de Varsovienne, de Polka-mazurka, de Polka, de Wals en de Schottisch behandeld. Een apart hoofdstuk wijdt hij aan kleine dansen, verenigingsdansen, speldansen, rituele nummers en figuurrijke kadrils. Het grootste aantal bladzijden gaat echter naar de muzieknotatie van de verschillende melodieen.
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Peeters Publishers The Scourge and the Cross: Ascetic Mentalities of
Book SynopsisHarsh asceticism, including ritual self-mortification, remains one of the most troubling and least understood aspects of monastic life in the Later Middle Ages. The nuns whose austere lives are celebrated in spiritual biographies and autobiographies in the Order of Preachers were long dismissed by traditional scholars as hysterics or inferior mimics of true mysticism. Some recent feminist studies either gloss over asceticism or portray its practitioners as traumatized victims of patriarchal oppression. Traditionalists and progressives seem to agree: extreme asceticism is best understood as pathetic or even pathological behavior. David Tinsley seeks to temper this view by exploring late-medieval asceticism on its own terms. Building on the work of Caroline Walker Bynum, Peter Dinzelbacher, and Jeffrey Hamburger, Tinsley analyzes the ascetic mentalities of Dominican convent culture in the 14th century, including the sources the nuns read, the famous ascetics they venerated, and their most common rituals and practices. The key question is how these nuns could see self-imposed suffering as so crucial to shaping the questing soul's journey to God.
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Peeters Publishers Voetsporen van Devotie. Processies in
Book SynopsisProcessies lijken aan het begin van de eenentwintigste eeuw te behoren tot een ver katholiek verleden. Straatnamen als 'Processiestraat' of 'Processieweg' roepen beelden op van bloemblaadjes, prevelende pastoors en weerbarstige engeltjes die niet in de rij willen lopen. De voorbije eeuwen waren die optochten alomtegenwoordig in het katholieke leven. Hun verhaal is echter niet afgerond. Alleen al in de provincie Vlaams-Brabant benaderde het aantal jaarlijkse processies in 2008 de kaap van de honderd. Voetsporen van devotie bundelt de resultaten van het studieproject 'Processies in Vlaams-Brabant, van 1750 tot heden'. Het werd door KADOC-K.U.Leuven uitgevoerd in het kader van het onderzoeksprogramma 'Accenten uit het verleden van Vlaams-Brabant', dit in opdracht van het provinciebestuur. Na een inleidende typologie van het processiegebeuren omvat het eerste deel van de publicatie een algemene, toegankelijke geschiedenis van het processiegebeuren door de eeuwen heen, met een bijzondere aandacht voor de regio's die vandaag deel uitmaken van Vlaams-Brabant. Deze synthese biedt basisinformatie over de evoluerende vormgeving, invulling en betekenis van het processieritueel in relatie tot de historische context. Daarbij wordt teruggegaan tot de late middeleeuwen en wordt stilgestaan bij de inschakeling van de processies in de Contrareformatie, hun kritische benadering tijdens de verlichting en hun heropbloei tijdens het katholieke reveil van de negentiende eeuw. Ten slotte komt ook de glorietijd van de processies aan bod in het rijke roomse leven en hun ontworteling vanaf de jaren 1960. Dit verhaal wordt rijk geillustreerd met eigentijdse prenten en vaantjes, foto's en affiches. In het tweede deel worden zeven actieve Vlaams-Brabantse processies voor het voetlicht gehaald. De gevalsstudies werden daarom zorgvuldig uitgekozen. Niet zozeer hun bekendheid was een bepalend criterium, maar bovenal hun verankering in het plaatselijk gemeenschapsleven. Tussen beide delen presenteert fotograaf Jan Locus zijn eigen kijk op de huidige Vlaams-Brabantse processies. Hij geeft niet louter een documentaire kijk op dit immateriele erfgoed. Zijn foto's getuigen van een persoonlijke blik vanop de zijlijn. Als bijlage bij de publicatie wordt een kaart gevoegd met een inventaris van de vandaag (2007-2008) in Vlaams-Brabant actieve processies.
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Peeters Publishers The World of Travellers: Exploration and
Book SynopsisTravel has always been a favourite human concern. Throughout the centuries, fascination with the unfamiliar or even unknown has turned many people into geographers, explorers, and writers of travel fiction. In the early Middle Ages, a great variety of travel accounts were accordingly appropriated, translated, recontextualised, and ultimately found their way into the literary production of Germanic Europe. The interest in distant countries and peoples was complemented by spiritual concerns, such as one finds in the accounts of early pilgrims to the Holy Land. The key words in the title of this book, 'exploration and imagination', imply that travel meant more than visiting foreign places and peoples. As with modern fantasy and science fiction literature, travel could also stimulate the imagination, especially in cases when perilous physical journeys were enhanced by imagined travel. Such accounts were rich in descriptions of the physical world, but they lent themselves equally to the relation of spiritual journeys. As a result, modern out-of-body experience finds its medieval counterpart in the journeyings and adventures of the human soul within a metaphysical and eschatological perspective. Finally, imagery travel may also be purely intellectual. The articles in this volume address the categories of travel outlined above in the light of the interface between the Latin and Germanic traditions.
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Peeters Publishers Church, Cities, and People: A Study of the Plebs
Book SynopsisThis book is about people. It is an attempt to make sense of the position of the plebs in the Church and cities of Roman Africa in Late Antiquity. By looking at the terminology of plebs and populus in Christian texts, in combination with aspects of the vast amount of archaeological evidence and epigraphy from the African provinces of the Roman Empire, Evers seeks to establish a much closer link between text and context, arguing that the laity in the Early Church had an active role to play. The writings of Cyprian of Carthage, Optatus of Milevis, and Augustine of Hippo are taken more at face value, and not discarded as purely theological treatises and other programmatic products of the Christian pen. Christian texts, certainly of earlier times, most of all aimed at convincing an audience as large as possible, of all sorts, and of all ranks. And hence they must have made sense in almost every possible way. The "rhetoric of Empire" became rapidly adapted by the great minds of the Early Church to the needs of Christianity. But this rhetoric was not simply an artificial language, transmitted and maintained throughout the centuries, creating a world that was merely recognisable through memory. The written and spoken words of bishops, priests, and other Christian figures of authority, following the example of their secular counterparts, were not simply compositions of eschatological fiction. Their works continued to refer to real, social, political, and cultural frameworks outside the texts, as is established by the archaeological and epigraphic evidence. Both plebs and populus continued to have significant social and political connotations. The conversion of Emperor Constantine did not bring about a rapid change. Orthodoxy, and hence authority, was not established and secured overnight. The ecclesiastical hierarchy, moulded over centuries, and with the structures of Empire as its prime example, continued to depend on the people within the Church, even until Augustine's time and beyond. Arguably, the position of the plebs Christiana was a reflection of that of the plebs urbana, the people in the cities of Roman Africa. The Empire and its cities acted as a model for the Church, hence the Church became a mirror for the cities and the Empire.
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Peeters Publishers Mediatization of Politics in History
Book SynopsisThe dynamic relationship of media and politics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is a new field in historical scholarship. The mediatization of politics is a central topic in current debates on the role of media in society and culture. Until now a historical perspective has been strikingly absent from this debate. At an international congress at the University of Groningen in November 2006 a wide range of scholars tried to address this lack. The result is this book, in which an interdisciplinary effort is made to shed light on the historical background of media processes and media forms influencing politics. Also included are articles that analyse the ways in which politicians and parties tried to mobilize media power for their own goals.
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Peeters Publishers Dulcissima Aequora: Wasserbewirtschaftung und
Book SynopsisDie Terme Suburbane in Pompeii, integraler Bestandteil eines extraurbanen Gebaudekomplexes, bieten aufgrund ihrer exzellenten Erhaltung die besten Voraussetzungen fur eine detaillierte Untersuchung der wasserwirtschaftlichen und hydrotechnischen Einrichtungen in allen ihren Teilbereichen: Versorgung, Nutzung, Entsorgung und Betriebsmodi; daruber hinaus konnen Erkentnisse zu Umbauphasen mit ihren Konsequenzen im Hinblick auf die Wasserbewirtschaftung gewonnen werden. Neben den Standardeinrichtungen enthalt dieses wohl von einem Privatmann errichtete kleindimensionierte Bad eines der seltenen Beispiele der sog. 'Samowar'-Piscina, die den Luxus dieser Thermen in aller Deutlichkeit demonstriert. Es lasst sich nachweisen, wieviel Aufwand der Auftraggeber bezuglich der Architektur, der dekorativen Ausstattung und nicht zuletzt der Heiz- und Hydrotechnik betrieben hat, um den Badegasten eine exklusive Anlage zur Verfugung zu stellen, zu der sicherlich nicht jedermann Zugang hatte. Nicht nur auf die Bewohner von Pompeii, sondern auch auf Auswartige wird sie eine grosse Anziehungskraft ausgeubt haben.
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Peeters Publishers Repertorium of Middle Dutch Sermons Preserved in
Book SynopsisDe preek is een van de belangrijke genres van de Middelnederlandse geestelijke literatuur, naast de mystieke literatuur, het heiligenleven, het gebed en de bijbelvertaling. De preek is ook een prominente historische bron, doordat zij bij uitstek een middel was om religieuze, morele en culturele normen, waarden en attitudes te verbreiden. Overgeleverde preken zijn daarom niet alleen waardevol voor kerk- en literatuurgeschiedenis, maar ook voor de cultuurgeschiedenis in het algemeen, de ideeen- en mentaliteitsgeschiedenis. De studie van de Middelnederlandse preek is sterk achtergebleven bij het historisch belang ervan. Dit komt ondermeer doordat vooralsnog een goed overzicht van de bewaarde preken ontbrak. Het Repertorium van Middelnederlandse preken, voortgekomen uit het VNC-project 'Middelnederlandse preken' (Vrije Universiteit van Amsterdam en Universiteit Antwerpen - UFSIA) wil deze leemte opvullen. De delen IV, V en VI geven samen met de reeds in 2003 gepubliceerde delen I en II een nagenoeg volledig overzicht van alle Middelnederlandse preken bewaard in handschriften tot 1550 in alle Nederlandse en Belgische collecties, alsmede in alle ons bekende bewaarplaatsen in Europa en de Verenigde Staten. Deel VII bevat de indexen op deze vijf repertoriumdelen en vervangt daarmee het in 2003 gepubliceerde deel III. Het geheel vormt een compleet en onmisbaar instrument voor iedereen die zich bezighoudt met dit deel van de geestelijke volkstalige literatuur van de middeleeuwen.
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Peeters Publishers De Hoge Gezondheidsraad (1849-2009): Schakel
Book SynopsisIn 1849 richtte minister Charles Rogier een raad van experten op om hem advies te verlenen over alle kwesties die te maken hadden met volksgezondheid. 160 jaar later voert de Hoge Gezondheidsraad in principe nog altijd dezelfde kernopdracht uit. De behandelde thema's waren aanvankelijk zeer breed: arbeidershuisvesting, persoonlijke hygiene, de strijd tegen infectieziekten, de ziekenhuisinfrastructuur enz. Dit boek toont hoe de raad achter de schermen mee de krijtlijnen uittekende van het Belgische volksgezondheidsbeleid. Daarom is het verhaal veel ruimer dan alleen de geschiedenis van een overheidsorgaan. Het boek weerspiegelt de evolutie die Belgie doormaakte op het gebied van hygiene, medisch-wetenschappelijke ontdekkingen, gezondheidsbeleid en sociale wetgeving en toont hoe de wetenschappelijke adviezen van de Hoge Gezondheidsraad op lange termijn het dagelijks handelen tot in het kleinste detail beinvloed hebben. 160 jaar lang vormde de raad de schakel tussen wetenschap en beleid.
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Peeters Publishers Belgische Uurwerken en Hun Makers AZ - Horloges
Book SynopsisEddy Fraiture (1942) schreef een aantal dichtbundels, was actief in de kleinkunstwereld, kende succes als atleet, maar in zijn passie voor uurwerken zette hij nog een stap verder. Zijn ontdekking van de horlogewereld, nu zo'n twintig jaar geleden, bleef niet beperkt tot de techniek en de kunst van het uurwerk, maar evolueerde tot een gote interesse voor de historische en de economische context van de uurwerkmakerij. Zijn publicaties Uurwerknijverheid en uurwerkmakers in Vlaanderen (2002) en Staande klokken en uurwerkmakers in Vlaanderen zijn daarvan mooie voorbeelden. In dit nieuwe boek leidt Eddy Fraiture ons rond in de vaak onbekende en jammer genoeg ook onbeminde wereld van het Belgische uurwerk en zijn makers. Dit boek, dat onder meer een lijst bevat van meer dan 4600 horlogemakers die in Belgie actief waren en waarvan sommigen zoals Nicolas Vallin, Zacharie Raingo of Hubert Sarton tot de allerbeste ter wereld behoren, is een must voor elke rechtgeaarde horlogeliefhebber, verzamelaar of antiquair. Eddy Fraiture (1942) est un touche-a-tout avec une grande passion pour l'horlogerie. La decouverte du monde horloger il y a une vingtaine d'annees ne s'arreta pas a la technique ou a l'art de construire une horloge. Il s'interessait aussi au contexte economique et historique. On retrouve deja cette demarche dans ses livres: Uurwerknijverheid en uurwerkmakers in Vlaanderen 2002 ('Industrie horlogere et horlogers en Flandre' Trad.) et Staande klokken en uurwerkmakers in Vlaanderen 2005 ('Horloges de parquet et horlogers en Flandre' Trad.). Dans son troisieme livre
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Peeters Publishers Making Myths: Jews in Early Christian Identity
Book SynopsisWere the Jews who appear so abundantly in the writings of the early Church real or were they figments of the imagination? In this new book, Leonard Rutgers argues that they were both. Exploring Jewish-Christian interaction in Late Antiquity in the form of three case studies, Rutgers shows that early Christian ideas about Jews and Judaism not only played a determining role in the ideologies that shaped early Christian identity formation. They also had a tendency to spill over into the real world. Therefore such ideas deeply influenced the dynamics of Jewish-Christian relations during a period that saw the curtailing of Jewish civil rights and liberties precisely as a result of early Christian exegetical activity. Making Myths draws a picture of Jewish-Christian relations in Late Antiquity that is significantly bleaker than the optimistic view of Roman-period Jewish history that permeates many recent studies on the topic. An epilogue sets out to explain why more irenic scenarios do not apply to the period under study.
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Peeters Publishers Faces of Hellenism: Studies in the History of the
Book SynopsisCollecting papers on historiography, papyrology, history, and material culture, this volume charts the changing faces of Hellenistic civilization from the fourth century B.C. to Late Antiquity. The Macedonian colonisation and the Roman conquest had an important impact on society, politics, and culture of the Eastern Mediterranean. The papers address issues such as bilingualism and the role of 'invented traditions' in Roman Egypt. They emphasise local differences within the Roman Empire, for example the difficult access inhabitants of Egypt had to Roman citizenship. Other contributions asses the perspective of the sources and how they reveal different facets of Hellenistic society. Drawing on approaches developed in the Section of Ancient History of the University of Leuven, the contributions pay homage to three retiring professors, L. Mooren, G. Schepens, and H. Hauben, who each in their different way have explored the changing faces of Hellenism for the past thirty years.
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Peeters Publishers Practice in Learning: The Transfer of
Book SynopsisThroughout the early Middle Ages, education and learning in Western Europe underwent a substantial development, from Italy across the Alps, from Latin to the vernacular and from secular to (although not exclusively) religious. With Latin as its prime medium, developments in education and learning were genuinely international and allowed for a steady exchange of teachers and texts across borders and institutions. Members of the fifth-century Gallo-Roman senatorial classes ' such as Eucherius of Lyons and Cassiodorus ' became bishops, abbots or founders of monasteries, and thereby catalysts in the transformation from secular to religious education. Then as now intellectuals travelled, taking both their learning and their books with them: Theodore of Tarsus travelled from the extreme end of the Mediterranean to Italy and across the Alps; John Scottus Eriugena migrated from Ireland to France; Boniface from England to Germany; while Abbo later made a journey from Fleury to Abingdon and back ' to name only a few examples. With the mobility of intellectuals comes the movement of texts and books: ranging from Pliny's Historia naturalis and Isidore's Etymologiae or the works of Bede to many of the smaller texts and fragments which have been the subject of study in the 'Storehouses' project. Although almost all of the precise details of classroom practice in the early Middle Ages remain hidden to the modern eye, and identifiable students' copy books or note-pads are rare, some of the texts and books that have survived still recall the monastic auditorium or schola because of their potential use in the classroom or in view of the texts found in these books. Often these texts and manuscripts testify to the international developments outlined above and to the international nature of the world of early medieval learning. The articles in this second volume of 'Storehouses of Wholesome Learning' emanate from the second workshop in the project, this time held at Leiden in June 2005. They focus on illuminating the multifaceted practice of learning by laying bare the exchanges of scholarship between the British Isles and the continent. From the Development of the Foetus, found in Bremmer's contribution, to the Fifteen Signs of Doomsday, the encyclopaedic knowledge that was disseminated all over Western Europe in written texts and, in all likelihood, through oral transmission, featured strongly in the practice of early medieval learning. The subject of that learning was nothing less than life itself, both in the physical and in the spiritual sense of the word.
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Peeters Publishers Vilvoorde City, Meer Bepaald in De Far-West:
Book SynopsisVilvoorde City, meer bepaald in de Far-West bundelt de resultaten van het studieproject 'Sociale huisvesting in Vlaams-Brabant' in opdracht van het provinciebestuur. Het werd door Amsab-Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis uitgevoerd in het kader van het onderzoeksprogramma 'Accenten uit de geschiedenis van Vlaams-Brabant'. Amsab-ISG koos voor een diepgaande studie van de wijk Far-West in Vilvoorde. De kern van deze buurt is de tuinwijk Maurits Duche. In 1921 gaf de sociale huisvestingsmaatschappij De Vilvoordse Haard de opdracht tot de bouw van een nieuwe wijk. Die ontwikkelde zich al snel tot een hechte gemeenschap waar cafes en sport een belangrijke plaats innamen.Tuinwijken waren zeer populair toen Belgie na de Eerste Wereldoorlog oplossingen moest zoeken voor het ernstig woningtekort. Het idee kwam uit Engeland waar Ebenezer Howard in 1902 de term 'tuinsteden' introduceerde in zijn werk Garden Cities of To-Morrow. Vanuit een utopische visie pleitte hij voor nieuwe geplande steden omgeven door landbouwgebied en groen. Toen na de Eerste Wereldoorlog meer dan 100.0 00 huizen moesten worden heropgebouwd in Belgie, zagen socialistisch en modernistisch geinspireerde architecten het heil in tuinwijken, de afgeslankte versie van tuinsteden. De opdrachtgevers waren vooral cooperatieve huurdersverenigingen en sociale huisvestingsmaatschappijen. In drie hoofdstukken krijgt de lezer een historisch overzicht van het ontstaan van de Far-West tot de uitbreiding ervan vandaag. Het archiefmateriaal bood dikwijls verrassende details die het verleden weer springlevend maakten. De wijk is echter meer dan een geografische afbakening van een stuk grond. Het is ook een verzameling van persoonlijke ervaringen en geschiedenissen. Daarom bundelt het vierde hoofdstuk niet alleen herinneringen aan het leven in de wijk van vroeger, maar ook getuigenissen van jonge bewoners nu. Hierdoor werden zij actief betrokken bij de geschiedenis van de eigen wijk, die tenslotte nog steeds verder evolueert. Fotograaf Piet Janssens gaf zijn eigen interpretatie van het verhaal van de Far-West. Dat resulteerde in een kleurrijke reeks beelden.
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Peeters Publishers Beethoven's Tempest Sonata: Perspectives of
Book SynopsisFor music analysts and performers alike, Beethoven's Tempest sonata (1802) represents one of the most challenging pieces of the classical and early romantic piano repertoire. This book is a collection of eleven essays, each dealing with this sonata from a different analytical perspective and investigating the possible connections between music analysis and the practice of performance. Under the editorship of Pieter Berge, Jeroen D'hoe and William E. Caplin, the book presents essays by Scott Burnham (hermeneutics), Poundie Burstein (Schenkerian approach), Kenneth Hamilton (history of performance), Robert Hatten (semiotics), James Hepokoski (Sonata Theory), William Kinderman (source studies), William Rothstein (tempo, rhythm, and meter), Douglas Seaton (narratology), Steven Vande Moortele (20th-century Formenlehre) and the editors themselves (motivic analysis and form-functional approach respectively).
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Peeters Publishers Utopianism and the Sciences, 1880-1930
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on the relationship between utopianism and the sciences in the period from 1880 to 1930. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Europe and the United States experienced a mushrooming desire for a more beautiful, happier world. During the nineteenth century, the older 'classic' utopianism of Plato and More started to develop into so-called 'modern' utopianism: ideas that used to be considered mere thought experiments were developing into programmes that could in fact be realised in time. The proposed societal ideal thus needed to be supported by convincing and preferably scientific arguments, particularly at a time when, despite all the criticism, people still kept faith in science. Science was thus strongly embraced by those engaged in theory formation, sociopolitical debate and artistic expression, all of which were directed at supporting the ideal of a better future. The contributions to this book demonstrate how scientific discoveries such as electricity and the X-ray, as well as scientific theories in the fields of physics, mathematics, biology, the medical sciences, sociology and even linguistics, were used to substantiate, illustrate and realise the future utopia. This volume is the result of recent interdisciplinary research in the fascinating field of utopian sciences and scientific utopias.
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Peeters Publishers Imagination and Commitment: Representations of
Book SynopsisIn this volume the social question is related to forms of visualisation and imagination and to the political action that arose from them. In the debate of the social question, individual distress (such as poverty, illness and unemployment) was reformulated into societal and political issues, bringing to the fore the question of inclusion: Who belongs to the nation? Who can become a citizen? In this process, the visual, statistical and textual representation of the social question enabled a determination of public opinion, political agenda setting and eventually the implementation of social politics. These representations provide us with new perspectives on the social question itself, help us to broaden the definition of politics, and shed light upon the social and political implications of art and literature. This volume is based on contributions to the international conference 'Imagination and Commitment. Representations of the Social Question', University of Groningen, the Netherlands, which took place on 10-11 May 2007, and was sponsored by the NWO programme 'Democracy, policy, knowledge' and the Groningen Research School for the Study of the Humanities.
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Peeters Publishers Salutz E Amors. La Lettre D'amour Dans La Poesie
Book SynopsisEn marge de la production litteraire des troubadours des 12eme et 13eme siecles on trouve un certain nombre de lettres d'amour en vers. Dans ces epitres amoureuses, mieux connues sous le terme de saluts, l'amant implore la grace de sa dame selon les preceptes de la litterature courtoise de l'epoque. Thematiquement proches du genre lyrique majeur de la canso, les saluts se distinguent toutefois de celle-ci par l'emploi de la forme non-lyrique des genres didactiques et narratifs, non sans conferer une nouvelle unite a ce melange remarquable en observant les regles dictees par les manuels epistolaires contemporains. En meme temps, c'est ce caractere hybride qui fait du salut un genre mal defini et peu connu. Cette etude propose une reevaluation de ce genre mineur de la lyrique troubadouresque. En partant des diverses etudes dont le salut a fait l'objet jusqu'a maintenant, elle examine d'abord l'ensemble des poesies designees par ce terme afin d'offrir une delimitation pratique du corpus. L'analyse detaillee de l'un des saluts du 'maitre' du genre, le troubadour Arnaud de Mareuil, permet ensuite de mieux cerner sa technique poetique. La specificite du discours amoureux du salut ressort d'un examen approfondi de son caractere epistolaire, qui, par le dialogue implicite avec la dame qu'il entraine, fait eclater la construction lyrique traditionnelle en ouvrant la voie vers les genres narratifs. Ce double statut generique lyrico-narratif du salut est enfin illustre par un survol de l'emploi de la designation salutz, par un examen succinct de sa tradition manuscrite et par un inventaire des traces que le genre a laissees dans les textes contemporains.Le salut apparait ainsi comme un genre original, qui, a travers ses carateristiques specifiques, jette un pont entre le lyrique et le narratif. Ce faisant, il constitue un moment particulier dans l'evolution de la litterature occitane medievale.
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Peeters Publishers Writing to Survive. A Commentary on Sidonius
Book SynopsisA key figure in late antique Gaul, Sidonius Apollinaris - aristocrat, administrator, poet, letter-writer, and bishop - is still insufficiently understood. This study aims to contribute to an up-to-date appreciation, both by incorporating recent research and by breaking new ground. It is a philological and historical commentary with many of the qualities of a monograph. Focusing on eleven letters written by Sidonius to his fellow bishops, one of which contains the only surviving example of Sidonius' prose oratory, it fills an important gap in the critical coverage of his literary production. A lengthy introduction situates the letters within Sidonius' life and works, the politics of the last years of the Roman empire in the west, and the traditions of late antique epistolography. Use is made throughout of modern research in linguistics, and a fresh hypothesis on the rendering of 'you' and 'I' in Sidonius' correspondence is proposed. The book offers a reappraisal of late antique stylistic 'mannerism' as 'community art' which gives preference to the socially unifying function of art over its individual creative potential. This is a work which will be of interest to classicists and medievalists, to literary scholars and church historians, to those concerned with philological and historical intricacies and those interested in the broader development of literature and mentalities in Late Antiquity.
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Peeters Publishers The Black Sea, Greece, Anatolia and Europe in the
Book SynopsisThe volume celebrates the 75th birthday of Prof. Jan Bouzek, one of the leading specialists in Mediterranean, Black Sea, Anatolian and European archaeology. The chapters, written by leading specialists who are friends and colleagues of the dedicatee, address many of Prof. Bouzek's primary interests: Thrace, the Getae, the Persians in Europe, the impact of the Etruscans on ancient Europe, Black Sea archaeology, Hallstatt Europe, the Celts, the Scythians, the Iron Age in Central Anatolia, jewellery, etc. All chapters are substantial pieces that offer overviews of our present state of knowledge.
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Peeters Publishers Les Reclus Grecs du Sarapieion de Memphis: Une
Book SynopsisLes archives bilingues des reclus grecs (katokhoi) du Sarapieion de Memphis constituent un corpus exceptionnel pour etudier les relations entre Hellenes et Egyptiens dans le cadre d'un temple egyptien au deuxieme siecle avant notre ere. L'enquete replace la reclusion en Egypte dans le cadre plus large du monde hellenistique et romain. Elle propose une solution au debat sur la nature de cette reclusion (katokhe) en montrant que ces hommes, qui beneficient de la protection des dieux dans l'espace sacre, ont ete seduits par la religion egyptienne. Les deux fils du clerouque Macedonien Glaukias, Ptolemaios et Apollonios, sont le c'ur de la recherche, qui degage leurs moyens economiques de vie, leurs amities et les tensions avec le milieu egyptien, et leur niveau de culture orale et ecrite. La question de leur eventuel bilinguisme et l'etude des lectures que revele leur bibliotheque posent la question du niveau de leur education grecque et de leur degre d'ouverture au monde egyptien.
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Peeters Publishers Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World: Acta
Book SynopsisThis volume presents the outcome of the workshop 'Cultural Messages in the Graeco-Roman World', which marked the 80th anniversary of BABESCH. It takes as its premise that looking at modes to analyse cultural messages in the classical world is a valuable approach to the study of antiquity. The main purpose of the volume is therefore to explore ways in which (and the extent towards which) one can answer substantial questions about Greek and Roman culture through analysing material sources. To this end, the volume includes papers by archaeologists and ancient historians with an interest in larger methodological and theoretical questions. They all explore one of two broader themes: funerary culture and domestic culture. Within the context of those two themes, papers question how one can make statements about ancient societies based upon a specific set of material finds. The focus of the individual papers ranges from the early Greek until the later Roman period, evenly distributed among the two themes. This broad chronological range indicates the wide framework of the volume. The result is a highly interesting mixture of different kinds of studies, all emphasising the critical importance of context - local, geographical, and in terms of materiality - in any sustainable analysis of ancient cultural messages.
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Peeters Publishers Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion:
Book SynopsisThe articles in this publication are presentations given during and offered to the Colloquium Material Aspects of Etruscan Religion, organised by the Faculty of Archaeology of Leiden University on 29 and 30 May 2008. They shed much new light upon religious aspects of sanctuaries, cities, settlements, necropoles, and tombs in Etruria, in the Po valley and in Campania. Also several, hitherto unpublished artefacts with ritual representations are commented on. A new analysis of the role, gestures and instruments of haruspices (divination experts) suggests that Etruscan divination is of Near Eastern origin. Interdisciplinary research on the function of litui proves that this curved staff of priests (but not of seers) probably originates also from the Near East. Finally, the religious background of Etruscan theatrical plays, always related to historical events in Roman history, is analysed. This BABESCH Supplement casts light on Etruscan gods, the process of anthropomorphisation, the cults, votive deposits, the cult places, also in necropoles, architectural decoration of temples and the relationship with representations on vases in the Faliscan border area of Etruria, rituals, and attributes of seers and priests. Further a new typology of altars is included. Extremely important are the results of very recent excavations in Tarquinia, at Gravisca, a multicultural harbour sanctuary near Tarquinia, at Marzabotto and several other places. The introduction sketches the main lines of the development of Etruscan religion with references to the contents of the colloquium papers.
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Peeters Publishers Authorship Revisited: Conceptions of Authorship
Book SynopsisHow do conceptions of the literary author change throughout history, and how do they function in specific contexts? The present volume aims to investigate debates on the concept of authorship as a struggle of participants - writers, critics, and scholars - over different conceptions of interpretation. In this struggle all kinds of literary and non-literary norms appear to be at stake. The volume compares the time span around 1900 and 2000, and contrasts the French situation with conditions in other cultures and 'minor literatures'. It addresses the following questions: how did the processes of group-constitution, professionalisation, and (de-)autonomisation of authorship around 1900 and 2000 offer new positionings and roles for writers, and affect conceptions of the author? To what extent can such conceptions of authorship - projected or defended by writers as well as by critics and scholars - be analysed as strategies to claim and legitimise a position in the literary field, respectively in the scholarly field? What light does the analysis of debates about authorship shed on how the social, political or moral relevance of both literature and criticism are defined and defended?
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Peeters Publishers From Pots to People: A Ceramic Approach to the
Book SynopsisDuring the last forty odd years, archaeological surveys have demonstrated that much can be said about changing patterns of regional exchange and settlement hierarchies based on surface observations. Walking the Mediterranean landscape, the most common indication of ancient human activity survey archaeologists come across are scatters of pottery and other ceramics. Enormous numbers of sherds are counted, collected, recorded, and interpreted in order to understand the ancient cultural, social, economic, and ritual landscapes. Some discrete scatters of ancient artefacts are interpreted as sites where people have lived and/or worked based on an analysis of both cultural and environmental data. These artefact scatters are modern phenomena affected by complex post-depositional processes such as cultivation which obscure potentional behavioural patterning. Artefact-based survey with its treatment of artefacts behaving as sediments in the soil enhanced with a detailed pottery analysis centred on use has the potential to greatly increase our understanding of the ancient rural world. This book offers an attempt to create a methodology for hypothesizing about the general activities taking place at sites identified by survey based on ceramics. The use typology is put forward as a tool for studying artefactual differentiation, and the method consists of establishing empirically generalized pottery indices of different human activities based on artefactual differentiation at Late Roman sites in Cyprus.
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Peeters Publishers Cyprian of Carthage: Studies in His Life,
Book SynopsisUp to Augustine, bishop Cyprian of Carthage was the theological authority in the West, and he has continued to influence theology ever since. Cyprian of Carthage. Studies in His Life, Language and Thought is the result of a symposium on this Church Father held by the Centre for Patristic Research (CPO), which is an initiative of VU University Amsterdam and Tilburg University. The symposium was held on the occasion of the 1750th anniversary of his martyrdom, which took place on 14 September 258. Virtually all contributions are from Dutch scholars who are members of the CPO. They cover Cyprian's biography, hermeneutical and philological questions, theological issues such as baptism and the role of the laity in episcopal elections, and the reception of the Church Father's texts in ancient and modern times.
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Peeters Publishers Ex Toto Orbe Romano: Immigration into Roman
Book SynopsisUsing Eutropius' remark that Trajan, after the Dacian conquest, brought colonists from all the Roman world (ex toto orbe Romano), the author analyses the phenomenon of immigration into Roman Dacia. The approach is both epigraphic and archaeological, but from both points of view, questions remain without a (precise) answer. The list of persons who are mentioned in inscriptions is divided into three main categories: the elites, the mining population (very particular in relation to the whole population), and persons belonging to middle and lower classes. The sample does not include elements of the non-stable population, such as active soldiers or members of the Roman administration in the province. In many cases, the names of people in the epigraphic sources do not indicate the origin of such persons, and only a few natives are attested. On the other hand, archaeological evidence indicates the presence in Dacia of some stone-workers from other provinces or circulating there in consequence of various wars, although it is impossible to be precise about the circulation of the latter folk. In the end, one of the main questions is: where are the natives? In both epigraphic and archaeological sources their presence is weakly attested. The author accepts that the colonisation of Dacia was indeed intense and that Eutropius' affirmation could be true; on the other hand, combining some literary evidence with the results of the present analysis and with the author's earlier demographic research, it can be said that the Romans found Dacia to be a sparsely populated territory. This is why the colonisation was not only intense but had such a strong effect in the Romanisation of the province.
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Peeters Publishers Site Neolithique Et Helladique Ancien De
Book SynopsisLes sondages effectues par O.W. von Vacano sur le site de Kouphovouno en Laconie pendant l'ete 1941 ont livre des vestiges d'habitations, des tombes et une quantite importante de materiel lithique, osseux et ceramique, temoignant d'une occupation allant du Neolithique moyen a l'Helladique ancien II. La publication des travaux d'O.W. von Vacano constitue a ce jour la seule etude consacree a un site de Laconie date de ces periodes. Elle tient compte des hypotheses et des conclusions que le fouilleur a formulees et compare les decouvertes de Kouphovouno avec les resultats des recherches les plus recentes sur le Neolithique et le Bronze ancien, notamment dans le Peloponnese. Apres une presentation de la stratigraphie du site, des vestiges de constructions et des tombes, une partie est consacree a l'etude de l'outillage en pierre taillee, en pierre polie, en os et en terre cuite, et comprend un catalogue complet des pieces entreposees au Musee de Sparte. Puis deux chapitres abordent respectivement la ceramique neolithique et celle de l'Helladique ancien. Enfin, une derniere partie presente les figurines en terre cuite
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Peeters Publishers Le Peloponnese Au Bronze Ancien
Book SynopsisCette monographie est une contribution a la connaissance des faits sociaux, economiques et culturels du Peloponnese au Bronze Ancien, a travers une etude qui prend en compte l'ensemble des donnees archeologiques. Les cinq chapitres de la premiere partie constituent un catalogue topographique complet des sites archeologiques et des vestiges qui font l'objet de l'etude de la seconde partie, intitulee "L'habitat et le mode de vie". Cette seconde partie s'organise autour de six themes : le premier concerne l'habitat et aborde les questions d'implantation, d'organisation et d'amenagement des habitats; le second concerne les habitations, leur construction, leurs plans et les fonctions attribuees aux batiments; le troisieme traite des moyens de subsistance, de l'exploitation des ressources naturelles, de l'agriculture et de l'elevage; le travail de la pierre, de la terre, du metal, des matieres premieres vegetales et animales constituent la matiere du quatrieme theme; le cinquieme theme - l'organisation economique - est aborde a travers une synthese des donnees sur les sceaux et les scelles; enfin les pratiques funeraires font l'objet du sixieme theme.
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Peeters Publishers Wine in the Mycenaean Palace Economy
Book SynopsisTable of Contents - Acknowledgements - Tables and appendices - List of illustrations - Bibliography - Introduction - Ch. 1. Background to Wine as an Agricultural Commodity - Ch. 2. The Development of the Wine Ideogram - Ch. 3. Mycenaean Vocabulary in Reference to Viticulture and Wine - Ch. 4. Derivatives of dateomai and the Distribution of Wine - Ch. 5. Wine in the Pylos Mixed Commodity Tablets - Ch. 6. Wine in the Knossos Fs Tablets - Ch. 7. The Impressed Nodules from the Wine Magazine at Pylos - Ch. 8. Wine in the Knossos and Mycenae Tablets - Ch. 9 The Place of Wine in the Mycenaean Palace Economy - Indexes - Plates
£71.25
Peeters Publishers Aegaeum 6
Book SynopsisTable des Matieres - Rene TREUIL, OA' sont donc les tombes neolithiques ? - Eleni GEORGOULAKI, The Minoan Sanctuary at Koumasa : the Evidence of the Material - Gisela WALBERG, The Finds in the Sealing Deposit at Phaistos and Minoan Administration - Frederique PETIT, Les jarres funeraires du Minoen Ancien III au Minoen Recent I - Edmund F. BLOEDOW, The 'Sanctuary Rhyton' from Zakros : What do the Goats mean ? - Nanno MARINATOS, The Tree, the Stone and the Pithos : Glimpses into a Minoan Ritual - Dimitri LABOURY, Reflexions sur les vases metalliques des tributaires keftiou - Robert LAFFINEUR, The Iconography of Mycenaean Seals and the Status of their Owners - Krzysztof NOWICKI, The West Siteia Mountains at the Turn of the Bronze and Iron Ages - Comptes rendus
£59.85