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(over) Franciscus van Assisi

Homerus, Vergilius, Sophocles, Ovidius en de vele andere klassieke schrijvers hebben een belangrijk stempel gedrukt op de westerse cultuur. Ze speelden door de eeuwen heen een grote rol in het onderwijs en hun werken verschenen in tal van edities en vertalingen. Maar vooral vormden de klassieke mythen, toneelstukken en gedichten een voorbeeld dat Nederlandse schilders, theatermakers en schrijvers uitdaagde tot navolging. Ook is de invloed van de klassieke schrijvers te traceren in de politieke theorie, de filosofie, ideeëngeschiedenis en de massamedia. In "De klassieke traditie in de Lage Landen" schetst classicus René Veenman een veelomvattend beeld van de receptiegeschiedenis van de klassieken in Nederland en België.

Het uitdragen en visualiseren van de eigen lokale of regionale geschiedenis werd in de late middeleeuwen en de vroegmoderne tijd als een belangrijke taak van literatuur, beeldende kunsten en architectuur beschouwd. Als bronnen werden niet alleen de klassieke schrijvers gebruikt, maar ook middeleeuwse kronieken, lyriek van de minnezangers, (echte en vervalste) inscripties en archeologische voorwerpen, en bovendien ruïnes uit allerlei periodes die men veelal op een creatieve manier interpreteerde. Monumentale gebouwen, of de resten daarvan, golden bij uitstek als bewijs van de grootsheid en ouderdom van de voorouders.

Contained in this volume is a book by Aristotle on the subject of logic or as the author would describe it, analytics. Topics is presented here in this volume translated by W.A. Pickard-Cambridge. This volume together with - Categories, On Interpretation, and On Sophistical Refutations -, and - Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics - forms the  - Organon - or complete books of Aristotelian logic. Students of classical philosophy and literature will find this volume of much interest.

Contained in this volume are books by Aristotle on the subject of logic or as the author would describe it, analytics. 'Categories, On Interpretation, and On Sophistical Refutations' are collected here in this volume translated by E. M. Edghill and W. A. Pickard-Cambridge. This volume together with 'Prior Analytics and Posterior Analytics', and 'Topics' forms the 'Organon' or complete books of Aristotelian logic. Students of classical philosophy and literature will find this volume of much interest.

An original and profound reflection on the many uses of the language. For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted by the Humanists as the official language for schools and by the Catholic Church as the common liturgical language, it was the way in which millions of children were taught, people prayed to God, and scholars were educated. Francoise Waquet's history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries is a highly original and accessible exploration of the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted. It goes on to consider what this conferring of power and influence on Latin meant in practice. Among the questions Waquet investigates are: What privileges were, and are still, accorded to those who claim to have studied Latin? Can Latin as a subject for study be anything more than purely linguistic or does it reveal a far more complex heritage? Has Latin's deeply embedded cultural legacy already given way to a nostalgic exoticism? Latin: A Symbol's Empire is a valuable work of reference, but also an important piece of cultural history: the story of a language that became a symbol with its own, highly significant empire.

the only one-volume edition containing a full selection of poems, critical essays, political writing, letters

How language evolved has been called the hardest problem in science. In Adam’s Tongue, Derek Bickerton—long a leading authority in this field—shows how and why previous attempts to solve that problem have fallen short. Taking cues from topics as diverse as the foraging strategies of ants, the distribution of large prehistoric herbivores, and the construction of ecological niches, Bickerton produces a dazzling new alternative to the conventional wisdom. Language is unique to humans, but it isn’t the only thing that sets us apart from other species—our cognitive powers are qualitatively different. So could there be two separate discontinuities between humans and the rest of nature? No, says Bickerton; he shows how the mere possession of symbolic units—words—automatically opened a new and different cognitive universe, one that yielded novel innovations ranging from barbed arrowheads to the Apollo spacecraft. Written in Bickerton s lucid and irreverent style, this book is the first that thoroughly integrates the story of how language evolved with the story of how humans evolved. Sure to be controversial, it will make indispensable reading both for experts in the field and for every reader who has ever wondered how a species as remarkable as ours could have come into existence.

Schrijnende en onvergetelijke roman over Noord-Korea, die uw ogen zal openen, uw hart zal breken en het dan weer aaneensmeedt. 

Virtuoos familie-epos over de ondergang van de DDR

Vertaling van het 21e boek van "Ab urbe condita" van de Romeinse geschiedschrijver (59 v. Chr. - 17 n. Chr.)