The earliest painting by Rembrandt whose owner is documented depicts the prophet Balaam, on his way to blessing Israel. The man who bought it was a Sephardi Jew in the service of Cardinal Richelieu of France. The first known buyer of an etching plate by Rembrandt, depicting Abraham Dismissing Hagar and Ishmael, was a Sephardi Jew of Amsterdam. Seen through their eyes, Rembrandt was the creator of images with a special meaning to Jews. They have been followed through the centuries by Jewish c...

As a former colonized nation, Indonesia has a unique place in the history of photography. 'A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age' looks at the development of photography from the beginning and traces its uses in Indonesia from its invention to the present day. The Dutch colonial government first brought the medium to the East Indies in the 1840s and immediately recognized its potential in serving the colonial apparatus. As the country grew and changed...

In the ‘Anatomy lessons’ that were painted for the Surgeons’ Guild in Amsterdam, the surgeons portrayed, their teachers, the corpse and the dissection are described and discussed.

Hoewel het Latijn aan weinig veranderingen onderhevig is - het is immers een dode taal en het aantal vondsten van onbekende teksten is beperkt - zijn de eisen die gebruikers aan een woordenboek Latijn/Nederlands stellen alsook de Nederlandse taal dat wél. Daarom is bij Amsterdam University Press de zevende herziene versie verschenen van het succesvolle vertaalwoordenboek Latijn/Nederlands van Harm Pinkster.

Deze zevende editie verschijnt zowel in boekvorm als op het internet (www.latijnneder...

How ‘green’ were people in late antiquity and the Middle Ages? Unlike today, the nature around them was approached with faith, trust and care. The population size was many times smaller than today and human impact on nature not as extreme as it is now. People did not have to worry about issues like deforestation and sustainability.

This book is about the knowledge of plants and where that knowledge came from. How did people use earth and plants in ancient times, and what did they know abo...

It has become increasingly apparent to early modern religious, political, cultural and book-historians that translations provide badly neglected but unique and invaluable insights into the processes of cultural change and exchange. This volume provides a wealth of precious insights into the whole process of translation. The articles shed invaluable light on early modern scholarly practices and careers, cultural exchange and relations, the book trade, and the religious politics of the Dutch Re...

Under the slogan ‘Merdeka!’, the Republic of Indonesia rushed into a battle for independence – a struggle whose outcome no one could predict. Harry Poeze and Henk Schulte Nordholt provide a new narrative about the revolution, focusing not only on the fight against the Dutch but also on the precarious rise of the Republic."

After the horrors of the Japanese occupation, the Republican leaders needed to somehow build a new state. From the Dutch side, they had to deal with short-sighted pol...

Ontdek de rijke wereld van het Oudgrieks met dit gloednieuwe Grieks/Nederlandse woordenboek!

Het Oudgrieks is de taal van epische meesterwerken zoals de Ilias en de Odyssee, van de allereerste geschiedschrijving, theater, filosofie en baanbrekende wetenschap in de Europese literatuur. Dit belangrijke nieuwe woordenboek opent de deur naar deze schat aan oude teksten en is ontworpen om aan de behoeften van diverse groepen hedendaagse gebruikers te voldoen. Of je nu net begint met het leren van ...

Het Marokkaans Arabisch, of kortweg 'Marokkaans', is een van de vele talen van Marokko. Marokkaans wordt gesproken in het dagelijks leven, maar de laatste jaren wordt het ook in toenemende mate gebruikt bij officiële gelegenheden. In Nederland wordt het Marokkaans gesproken door vele Nederlanders met roots in Marokko. Het Marokkaans is zelfs doorgedrongen in het Nederlands, met name in de straattaal van jongeren.

Woordenboek Marokkaans Arabisch – Nederlands is met ruim 15.000 trefwoorden h...