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Jan van Ruusbroec
(1984)
On December 2nd. 1381 one of the great masters of the Christian mystical tradition, Jan van Ruusbroec, died in his religious house of Groenendaal. The sixth centenary year, 1981, was marked by a variety of commemorative ...
Love and Marriage in the Twelfth Century
(1984)
Love, the mightiest feeling that can inspirit human beings, and Marriage, the institution which, if not animated by this feeling, loses its sense and its soul, form the topics of this book, just as they were the themes of ...
Mediaeval Antiquity
(1995)
The contributions here assembled originate from papers read to the colloquium on Mediaeval Antiquity which was organized, from 28 to 30 May 1990, by the 'Instituut voor Middeleeuwse studies' at KU Leuven.
Middenstandsbeweging en beleid in Belgi
(1998)
Hoe zagen de zelfstandigen in de tussenoorlogse periode hun eigen maatschappelijke positie en hun toekomstperspectieven? Hoe verteerden zij de politieke democratisering na de Eerste Wereldoorlog? Waarom bleven ze, ondanks ...
Levensrituelen. Geboorte en doopsel
(1996)
De geboorte van een nieuw mens wordt in alle samenlevingen en culturen omringd met traditionele gebruiken en rituelen. In de christelijke gemeenschappen viert men van oudsher het kinderdoopsel als opnameritueel. De betekenis ...
Levensrituelen. Het Vormsel
(1991)
Het vormsel: een omstreden sacrament. In Vlaanderen wordt het officieel verbonden met een plechtige herdenking van het doopsel en een geloofsbelijdenis. Voor de meesten betekent het vormsel een overgangsritueel, een ...
Lipsius en Leuven
(1997)
De Brabantse geleerde en hoogleraar Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) geldt terecht als
De marges van de macht
(1995)
De filosofen willen de wereld niet alleen verschillend interpreteren, maar ook veranderen! Wat blijft er van dat project in het hedendaagse 'denken in Parijs': nu Sartre en Althusser verdwenen, de politiek en de cultuur sterk ge
Morus ad Craneveldium literae Balduinianae novae
(1997)
The collection of original humanist letters to Frans van Cranevelt, discovered and acquired for K.U.Leuven in 1989, covers the years between 1520 and 1523, thus preceding the two collections edited by De Vocht in 1928. The ...
De mateloze negentiende eeuw
(2001)
De jarenlange studie van de sociale en culturele ontwikkelingen, en een tijdvretende verzameling en analyse van miljoenen demografische gegevens, leren dat er over de negentiende eeuw hardnekkige misverstanden bestaan. De ...
Missionering en moderniteit
(1996)
Het vicariaat van de Belgische minderbroeders in China fungeert als model voor de studie van de missionering vanuit een totaalconcept. Dit boeiend en kritisch relaas beperkt zich niet tot de voor de hand liggende religieuze ...
Naar leeuweriken grijpen
(1994)
P.J. Broekx en de christelijke arbeidersbeweging in Limburg
(1989)
""Onvermoeibaar werker, begaafde spreker en schrijver, echte volksvriend"". Met die woorden wordt Pieter Jan Broekx in 1913 verwelkomd op het Secretariaat van Maatschappelijke en Godsdienstige Werken van Limburg. Broekx ...
Peter Abelard
(1974)
Petrus Bloccius
(1991)
Tijdens mijn onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van het Leids Gymnasium kreeg ik in de bibliotheek van het Gemeentearchief in Leiden het boekje Petrus Bloccius in handen, dat de titel draagt: Praecepta Petri Bloccii formandis ...
Phineas Fletcher. Locustae vel Pietas Iesuitica
(1996)
The bilingual English poet Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) is the author of a short Latin epic on the Gunpowder Plot (1605). Mrs. Estelle Haan has provided the first critical edition based on all three manuscripts known and ...
Pascua Mediaevalia
(1983)
Pegasus Devocatus
(1992)
Back in 1963, when a conference on Horace was organised at Oudpelgeest (The Netherlands), Harry C. Schnur chose to comment upon Horace's famous poem Exegi monumentum aere perennius. Not unlike the Roman poet, Schnur was ...
The Principle of ""Equality of arms"" in criminal procedure under Article 6 of the European convention on Human Rights
(2000)
The paper deals with one of the significant aspect of fairness in criminal cases, the concept of ""equality of arms"". The considerations focus initially on the analysis of the scope and meaning of the notion of ""equality ...
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. ...