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Wissensordnungen des Rechts im Wandel
Päpstlicher Jurisdiktionsprimat und Zölibat zwischen 1000 und 1215
Hardcover || Stephan Dusil || Leuven University Press
Fascinating insights into the origins of canon law as an academic discipline and legal knowledge in the High Middle Ages.
Die Studie untersucht die Ordnung des mittelalterlichen Rechtswissens in vorgratianischen Sammlungen, dem Decretum Gratiani sowie den Glossen und Summen zum Dekret. Im Mittelpunkt steht also das kirchenrechtliche Wissen, das sich zwischen 1000 und 1215 grundlegend änderte: Während kirchliche Rechtsregeln um 1000 in Kanonessammlungen linear gespeichert waren, wurden sie i...
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The Book of Requiems Volume I a
The Medieval and Renaissance Periods: c. 1450 to c. 1550
2022 || Hardcover || David Burn || Leuven University Press
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 works in this tradition, from the origins of the genre up to the present day. Each chapter is devoted to a specific Requiem, and offers both historical information and a detailed work-discussion. Conceived as a multi-volume essay collection by leading experts, The Book of Requiems is an authoritative reference publication intende...
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History of Japanese Art after 1945
Institutions, Discourse, Practice
2023 || Hardcover || Kitazawa Noriaki e.a. || Leuven University Press
History of Japanese Art after 1945 is a compilation of essays that surveys the development of art in Japan since WWII. The original Japanese work, which has become essential reading for those with an interest in modern contemporary Japanese art and is a foundational resource for students and researchers, spans the 150 years from the 1850s to the 2010s. Each chapter is dedicated to a specific period and written by a specialist on the subject matter.
For this English edition, overseen by Art Pl...
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Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) art. XXV-XXVII
Hardcover || Henry of Ghent || Leuven University Press
Das Buch bietet die erste kritische Edition der Artikel XXV-XXVII der Summa (Quaestiones ordinariae) des Heinrich von Gent. Dabei leistet es einen Beitrag zur Geschichte der Formen und Pfade der Ideenvermittlung im Mittelalter und zur mittelalterlichen Buchkultur.
Die Kollationierung der Handschriften der Artikel XXV-XXVII und die Untersuchung ihrer materiellen Überlieferung haben der Editorin erlaubt, den Prozess der Ausarbeitung, Publikation und Verbreitung einer Portion von Heinrichs Sum...
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Islamic Glass in the Making
Chronological and Geographical Dimensions
2022 || Hardcover || Nadine Schibille || Leuven University Press
The ancient glass industry changed dramatically towards the end of the first millennium. The Roman glassmaking tradition of mineral soda glass was increasingly supplanted by the use of plant ash as the main fluxing agent at the turn of the ninth century CE. Defining primary production groups of plant ash glass has been a challenge due to the high variability of raw materials and the smaller scale of production. Islamic Glass in the Making advocates a large-scale archaeometric approach to the ...
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Anarchy of the Body
Undercurrents of Performance Art in 1960s Japan
2023 || Hardcover || KuroDalaiJee || Leuven University Press
In Anarchy of the Body, art historian KuroDalaiJee (a.k.a. Kuroda Raiji) sheds light on vital pieces of postwar Japanese avant-garde history by contextualizing the social, cultural, and political trajectories of artists across Japan in the 1960s. A culmination of years of research, Anarchy of the Body draws on an extensive breadth of source material to reveal how the practice of performance by individual artists and art groups during this period formed a legacy of resistance against instituti...
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Landscapes of Liberation
Mission and Development in Peru’s Southern Highlands, 1958 – 1988
2023 || Hardcover || Noah Oehri || Leuven University Press
Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix to which the Church belonged. Missionary movements to Latin America coincided with visions for a progressive, radically transformative church.
Landscapes of Liberation expands scholarship into liberation theology’s reception in Andean America and critically examines the interplay of the Catholic Church as a global institution with...
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Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Series 1 Averroes’ Natural Philosophy and its Reception in the Latin West
Hardcover || Paul J.J.M. Bakker || Leuven University Press
The impact of Averroes' natural philosophy on the history of philosophy and science.
Ibn Rushd (1126-1198) or Averroes, is widely known as the unrivalled commentator on virtually all works by Aristotle. His commentaries and treatises were used as manuals for understanding Aristotelian philosophy until the Age of the Enlightenment. Both Averroes and the movement commonly known as 'Latin Averroism' have attracted considerable attention from historians of philosophy and science. Whereas most stu...
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Plutarchea Hypomnemata A Versatile Gentleman
consistency in Plutarch's writing
2016 || Hardcover || Jan Opsomer e.a. || Leuven University Press
Plutarch was a brilliant Platonist, an erudite historian, a gifted author of highly polished literary dialogues, a priest of Apollo at Delphi, and a devoted politician in his hometown Chaeronea. He felt confident in the most technical and specialized discussions, yet was not afraid of rhetorical generalizations. In his voluminous oeuvre, he appears as a sharp polemicist and a loving father, an ardent pupil but also a kind, inspiring teacher, a sober historian and a teller of wondrous tales. I...
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Ancient and Medieval philosophy - Series 1 Diogenes of Oinoanda · Diogène d’Œnoanda
epicureanism and philosophical debates · Épicurisme et controverses
2017 || Hardcover || Jürgen Hammerstaedt e.a. || Leuven University Press
First collection of essays entirely devoted to the inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda.
The texts of Diogenes of Oinoanda (2nd century AD) who invited his readers to an Epicurean life is the largest ancient inscription ever discovered. Over 70 new finds have increased the number of known wall blocks and fragments to nearly 300, offering new insights into Diogenes' distinctive presentation of philosophy. This collection of essays discusses the philosophical significance of these discoveries an...