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Realism in the Sciences
(1996)
This book contains ten papers that were presented at the symposium about the realism debate, held at the Center for Logic, Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Language of the Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke ...
La Pax Hispanica
(1996)
A comienzos del siglo XVII y despu
Recueil de préfaces de romans du XVIIIe siècle. Tome I: 1700-1750
(1999)
Le XVIIIe si
Secularization and Social Integration
(1998)
At the end of the 1997-1998 academic year, Professor Karel Dobbelaere was awarded emeritus status by the Catholic University of Leuven. For four decades, he contributed and gave shape to academic sociology in Flanders. ...
Sapientiae immarcessibilis
(1994)
The University of Louvain (Leuven) was founded by Pope Martin V (1417. 1431) with his bull Sapientie Immarcessibilis (Sacrosanct Wisdom) on December 9, 1425, at the request of the city of Louvain, Johannes IV of Burgundy, ...
Rond Damiaan
(1989)
Molokai, 15 april 1889: Pater Damiaan overlijdt te midden van ""zijn"" melaatsen. Onmiddellijk na zijn dood komt een hele beweging op gang die Damiaan opneemt in de rij van de grote missiehelden. Tot vandaag is zijn naam ...
Strijd om de moderniteit
(1990)
De grote bewegingen van vroeger (liberale, katholieke, socialistische, communistische, ...) zijn de laatste decennia verzwakt. De massaorganisaties, die ooit zoveel enthousiasme en militantisme konden opwekken, beroeren ...
Sociology and Religions. An Ambiguous Relationship
(1999)
What are the relations between sociology and the different religions - Christianity with its various branches, Judaism, Islam, Oriental religions, sects and New Religious Movements ? That is the question which this work, ...
Studien zur Klosterreform des Grafen Arnulf I von Flandern
(1992)
Der vorliegende Studien wollen zur besseren Erfassung der Klosterreform des Grafen Arnulf von Flandern eine breitere Grundlage durch Erforschung des sogen. Umfeldes schaffen, also vor allem des Eigenverst
Spectroscopy of Transition Metal Ions on Surfaces
(2000)
Chemical industries are based on catalytic processes as both bulk and fine chemicals are often produced with heterogeneous catalysts. Transition metal ions dispersed on high-surface area inorganic solids are very important ...
Tussen bescherming en verovering
(1988)
Verzuiling, zuilvorming zijn vertrouwde hedendaagse begrippen. Bij nader toekijken betreft het echter niet eens zo actuele maatschappelijke processen. Reeds kort na de Belgische onafhankelijkheid in 1830 zien we de aanzet ...
Towards a learning organisation
(2000)
As we face a revolutionary move towards e-learning and away from traditional face-to-face training, today's human resource manager implementing technology-supported training needs a concise, practical handbook outlining ...
Vives te Leuven
(1993)
Zeven jaar geleden gingen wij in op de vraag van de academische overheid van de KU Leuven en organiseerden wij een tentoonstelling ter herdenking van de vierhonderdvijtigste verjaring van Erasmus overlijden. Juan Luis Vives ...
At Home in Renaissance Bruges
(2022)
How did citizens in Bruges create a home? What did an ordinary domestic interior look like in the sixteenth century? And more importantly: how does one study the domestic culture of bygone times by analysing documents such ...
Chapter 1 Cartographic Grounds
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Migration at Work
(2020)
"Migration and Labour Mobility
The willingness to migrate in search of employment is in itself insufficient to compel anyone to move. The dynamics of labour mobility are heavily influenced by the opportunities perceived ...
Experimental Affinities in Music
(2015)
Experimental Affinities in Music brings together diverse artistic, musicological, historical, and philosophical essays, enhancing a broad discourse on artistic experimentation, and exploring various experimental attitudes ...
The Theatre in the Middle Ages
(1985)
The present volume offers a collection of studies intended to give an overall picture of the International Colloquium on Medieval Theatre organized by the
The Works of Engelbertus Schut Leydensis (ca. 1420-1503)
(1997)
The Works of Engelbertus Schut Leydensis (ca. 1420-1503)
Ut granum sinapis
(1997)
In 1967 Jozef IJsewijn started the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae or Seminar for Neo-Latin Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Thanks to the founder
Van rechtvaardige oorlog naar rechtvaardige vrede
(1993)
In 1993 is het dertig jaar geleden dat Johannes XXIII de encycliek Pacem in terris publiceerde. Kerngedachte van deze wereldbrief over vrede is dat ""echte vrede niet berust op militair evenwicht maar op wederzijds ...
De Vincentianen in België
(1992)
In 1992 zijn de Vincentianen 150 jaar in Belgi
Voor lichaam en geest
(1994)
In de negentiende eeuw stond de Kerk eerder afwijzend tegenover alles wat met lichaamscultuur te maken had. Onder maatschappelijke druk kwam qgeleidelijk aan een meer positieve houding tot stand ten opzicht van lichamelijke ...
Voor kerk en werk
(1985)
Honderd jaar geleden, op 18 december 1886 werd de Antisocialistische Katoenbewerkersbond ""Recht en Plicht"" opgericht. Het was het zeer schuchtere begin van de christelijke arbeidersbeweging, die thans is uitgegroeid tot ...
The Use and Abuse of Eschatology in the Middle Ages
(1988)
The editors hope that enough material has been assembled to illustrate both the positive and the negative aspects of the eschatological element in mediaeval thought. An interdisciplinary approach, wit hits comparative study ...
Theory into practice
(2021)
"Theory into Practice. Composition, Performance and the Listening Experience' is the second publication in the series 'Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute'. The series comprises articles concerning the activities ...
Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain
(2022)
Companion to the exhibition “Japan’s Book Donation to the University of Louvain”, KU Leuven University Library, 28 October 2022 - 15 January 2023
With more than 3,000 titles in almost 14,000 volumes, the 1920s Japanese ...
Chapter 10 The Secularisation of Urban Space
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Between Conventional and Experimental
(2024)
How conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for all.
Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This ...
Chapter 4 Mapping the Evolution of Designed Landscapes with GIS
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Brokers of Modernity
(2019)
"The story of modernist architects in East Central Europe.
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the ...
Oil Wealth and Development in Uganda and Beyond
(2019)
Large quantities of oil were discovered in the Albertine Rift Valley in Western Uganda in 2006. The sound management of these oil resources and revenues is undoubtedly one of the key public policy challenges for Uganda as ...
Landscapes of Liberation
(2023)
The reception of liberation theology in
Andean America
Catholic mission from the mid-20th century onwards was complicated by geopolitical upheaval, church reform, and the emergent critique of the colonial power matrix ...
Character Constellations
(2021)
Fiction has a major social impact, not least because it co-shapes the image that society has of various social groups. Drawing on a collection of 170 contemporary Dutch-language novels, Character Constellations presents a ...
Gender and Christianity in Modern Europe
(2012-07-13)
Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this ‘thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate ...
Mongameli Mabona
(2020)
Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929) is a singular South African scholar with an exceptional life path. Yet, he is a wrongly forgotten figure today. British imperialism and apartheid shaped the world into which he was born and, ...
Building Collaborative Governance in Times of Uncertainty
(2023)
Insights and recommendations for collaborative governance.
Democratic societies are being challenged to look for new ways of doing politics that involve different stakeholders, particularly citizens. This book looks at ...
Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería
(2022)
Comunidad, pertenencia, extranjería' reveals the central role played by labour and mercantile migration from the North Sea region in the Viceroyalty of New Spain during a critical period in the formation of colonial ...
Chapter 5 Unfolding Wasteland
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Virtual Works – Actual Things
(2018)
"Beyond musical works: new perspectives on music ontology and performance
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 ...
Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation
(2025)
Performance in the fields of contemporary music, subjectivity and identity
Music reflects subjectivity and identity: that idea is now deeply ingrained in both musicology and popular media commentary. The study of music ...
Futures of the Contemporary
(2025)
Transdisciplinary approaches to the notions of “the contemporary” and “contemporaneity” Futures of the Contemporary explores different notions and manifestations of “the contemporary” in music, visual arts, art theory, and ...
Plotinus on Individuation
(2025)
New translation and first running commentary in English of Plotinus’s V. 7 [18].
No other Neoplatonic text has sparked as much debate as Ennead V. 7 [18] of Plotinus, ‘On the question of whether there are also Forms ...
Aberrant Nuptials
(2025)
More volumes on 'Deleuze and Artistic Research':
Machinic Assemblages of Desire
The Dark Precursor (Two-Volume Set)
Unique focus on the relation between artistic research and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
...
Chapter 8 A High-Resolution Multi-Scalar Approach for Micro-Mapping Historical Landscapes in Transition
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Images of Immigrants and Refugees in Western Europe
(2019)
"The topic of migration has become particularly contentious in national and international debates. Media have a discernable impact on overall societal attitudes towards this phenomenon. Polls show time and again that ...
Making Home(s) in Displacement
(2022)
'Making Home(s) in Displacement' critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how ...
The Hybrid Practitioner
(2022)
The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of ...
New Multicultural Identities in Europe
(2014-01-30)
How to understand Europe’s post-migrant Islam on the one hand and indigenous, anti-Islamic movements on the other? What impact will religion have on the European secular world and its regulation? How do social and economic ...
Francis Alÿs. The Nature of the Game
(2023)
The first multidisciplinary analysis of one of the most impactful and popular contemporary artworks of recent years.
In 1999, a short video of a solitary boy kicking an empty bottle up a hill in Mexico City became the ...
Europees burgerschap in de klas
(2022)
The impact of the EU on everyday life is huge, but not always visible. Educating young people to become informed and empowered EU citizens requires a strategy of active learning to prepare them for civic responsibility and ...
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation
(2022)
Black Matrilineage, Photography, and Representation: Another Way of Knowing' questions how the Black female body, specifically the Black maternal body, navigates interlocking structures that place a false narrative on her ...
Chapter 12 Landscape Appreciation in the English Lake District
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Spatial Boundaries, Abounding Spaces
(2021)
Colonialism advanced its project of territorial expansion by changing the very meaning of borders and space. The colonial project scripted a unipolar spatial discourse that saw the colonies as an extension of European ...
Marcel Broodthaers and Film
(2024)
Broodthaers' oeuvre and the history of experimental film.
Marcel Broodthaers, one of the key figures of the postwar avant-garde, has been recognized and extensively studied as a poet who became a visual artist in 1964. ...
Arrival Cities
(2020)
Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, ...
Watching, Waiting
(2023)
First study on empty places in photography and the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the aftermath of Covid-19, the subject of ‘empty places’ has gained renewed topicality and resonance. Watching, Waiting presents a collection of ...
Public Administration in Ethiopia
(2020)
"Building an effective, inclusive, and accountable public administration has become a major point of attention for policymakers and academics in Ethiopia who want to realise sustainable development. This first handbook on ...
Revival After the Great War
(2020)
In the months and years immediately following the First World War, the many (European) countries that had formed its battleground were confronted with daunting challenges. These challenges varied according to the countries' ...
Contact Zones
(2021)
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, ...
Portraits and Poses
(2022)
The complex relation between gender and the representation of intellectual authority has deep roots in European history. Portraits and Poses adopts a historical approach to shed new light on this topical subject. It addresses ...
Christian Masculinity
(2021)
"In the mid-nineteenth century, when the idea of religion as a private matter connected to the home and the female sphere won acceptance among the bourgeois elite, Christian religious practices began to be associated with ...
Brussel in een België met vier gewesten?
(2025)
De toekomst van Brussel bij een volgende staatshervorming, bekeken vanuit het perspectief van de stad en de Brusselaars.
Bij eerdere staatshervormingen leken de scenario’s op afspraken van een scheidend echtpaar ...
Participatiegolven
(2019)
Participatie’ werd, in de nasleep van 1968, een sleutelwoord in architectuur, stedenbouw en ruimtelijke ordening in Vlaanderen en Brussel. Sindsdien zijn processen van medezeggenschap, inspraak en coproductie min of meer ...
European Perspectives for Public Administration
(2020)
"The public sector in our society has over the past two decades undergone substantial changes, as has the academic field studying Public Administration (PA). In the next twenty years major shifts are further expected to ...
Across Anthropology
(2020)
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do ...
Actualia Vennootschapsrecht
(2001)
In dit boek zal elke notaris, advocaat, magistraat, bedrijfsjurist of consultant die van ver of dichtbij met het vennootschapsrecht in aanraking komt, zijn gading vinden. In een eerste deel wordt ingegaan op de problematiek ...
Alberto Struzzi, un precursor barroco del capitalismo liberal
(1995)
El presente libro aborda el pensamiento econ
Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems
(2017-02-10)
In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems ...
Evolving as a Digital Scholar
(2021)
"What does it take to become a digitally agile scholar? This manual explains how academics can comfortably navigate the digital world of today and tomorrow. It foregrounds three key domains of digital agility: getting ...
The Figure of Knowledge
(2020)
"It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly ...
Plutarch’s Cosmological Ethics
(2022)
Plutarch of Chaeronea (c. 45-120 CE) is the most prolific and influential moral philosopher in the Platonic tradition. This book is a fundamental reappraisal of Plutarch’s ethical thought. It shows how Plutarch based his ...
Dialogen over België
(2020)
"What events, places and figures linger in the memory of eighteen prominent Belgians when they think of their country? French-speaking and Dutch-speaking academics sought an answer to this question for several years. They ...
Chapter 2 Data Friction
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Children’s Literature in Translation
(2020)
"For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context ...
Chapter Frontmatter
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Ubiquity
(2021)
From its invention to the internet age, photography has been considered universal, pervasive, and omnipresent. This anthology of essays posits how the question of when photography came to be everywhere shapes our understanding ...
Transpositions
(2018)
"New modes of epistemic relationships in artistic research
Research leads to new insights rupturing the existent fabric of knowledge. Situated in the still evolving field of artistic research, this book investigates a ...
Martin Versfeld
(2021)
"Martin Versfeld (1909–1995) is one of South Africa’s greatest philosophers, appreciated by academics and activists, poets and the broader public. His masterful prose spans the tension between disquiet and joy. Detractor ...
Predicting the Past
(2021)
Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline ...
Epicureanism and Scientific Debates. Epicurean Tradition and its Ancient Reception
(2024)
New perspectives on Epicureanism in the fields of Epistemology and Ethics.
Epicurean philosophy is a philosophy of knowledge, nature and pleasure. The second part of a two-volume set, this edited collection examines ...
Unfinished Histories
(2022)
Colonial memory and interdisciplinary memorialization across Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Belgium
Belgian colonialism was short-lived but left significant traces that are still felt in the twenty-first century. This book ...
Newcomers Navigating the Welfare State
(2023)
The needs of newcomers and the provided social assistance.
The topic of social assistance for migrant newcomers often sparks heated public debate and remains a prominent concern on the policy agenda. Society has experienced ...
The Tacit Dimension
(2021)
"In architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role in both the design process and its reception. The essays in this book explore the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, ...
Living with History, 1914-1964
(2021)
"Living with History focuses on a particular aspect of heritage preservation in the 20th century: destruction and post-war reconstruction in Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, and The Netherlands.
This book ...
Fake news in oorlogstijd
(2021)
During the First World War, the German occupier tried to split Belgium internally. This was done by pursuing a Flamenpolitik, a policy aimed at scaring the Flemish, or at least the Flemish movement, against Belgium. That ...
Chapter About the authors
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Homo Mimeticus II
(2024)
Second volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies
After the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the ...
La Monarquía indiana de Carlos II en la encrujiada
(2024)
At the end of the 17th century, Spanish America was not yet in the throes of the crisis that would lead to the decadence of its Empire. This book unravels the causes and consequences of the political changes carried out ...
A Constellation of Courts
(2021)
This volume focuses on the various Habsburg courts and households of the two branches of the dynasty that arose following the division of the territories originally held by Charles V. The authors trace the connections ...
Painters and Communities in Seventeenth-Century Brussels
(2024)
Innovative exploration of the Brussels Baroque and the social dimensions of art production.
In seventeenth-century Brussels, the careers of painters were shaped not only by their artistic talents but also by the ...
Chapter Preface
(2019)
"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time.
The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised ...
Virtues for the People
(2011-05-06)
Plutarch of Chaeronea was by no means an armchair philosopher. He believed in the necessity for a philosopher to affect the lives of his fellow citizens. That urge inspired many of his writings to meet what he considered ...
The Elemental Analysis of Glass Beads
(2022)
Ancient glass beads as a window to the ancient world
Glass beads, both beautiful and portable, have been produced and traded globally for thousands of years. Modern archaeologists study these artifacts through sophisticated ...
Dies irae
(2021)
The requiem (or the death mass) is one of the oldest and longest surviving genres in Western music history. For hundreds of years it only existed in its original Gregorian guise, but from about 1450 many great composers ...