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Author : Johan Huizinga
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Briefwisseling: 1894-1924 written by Johan Huizinga and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Paul Hinrichs
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042020237
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Slavist, Linguist, Philanthropist written by Jan Paul Hinrichs and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicolaas van Wijk (1880-1941) was the founder of Slavic studies in the Netherlands and one of the greatest Slavists in general. This book describes for the first time how a scholar of the Dutch language, whose etymological dictionary of the Dutch language is still considered the best of its kind, was appointed in 1913 to the newly created Chair in Slavic languages at Leiden University and built up a tremendous reputation for himself in Eastern Europe. Van Wijk's relations with his famous teacher, the linguist C.C. Uhlenbeck, are followed attentively, as is his postgraduate apprenticeship in Leipzig (1902-1903), where he followed August Leskien's lectures in Slavic studies. Attention is also paid to the various aspects of Van Wijk's enormous oeuvre covering the whole field of Slavic studies and of phonology, of which he was one of the pioneers. Van Wijk did not, however, follow the lines approved for the social conduct of a Leiden professor and was at one time suspected by the police of communist activities. His commitment to materially helping all he could from an Eastern Europe torn apart by the First World War and its aftermath was exceptional. His fascination with all things Russian is a background theme that played throughout his life and even at his death: son of a Dutch Reformed minister, the bachelor Van Wijk was buried in a grave surmounted by a Russian Orthodox cross beside his Russian foster son, who died young. This book is of interest to Slavists, linguists and cultural historians.
Author : Jane Fenoulhet
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1910634972
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture written by Jane Fenoulhet and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Author : Nigel Spivey
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022668055X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Sarpedon Krater written by Nigel Spivey and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-10-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of tomb raiders, legal battles, suspicious death, and a 2,500-year-old vase: “Spivey proves a diligent detective and an engaging storyteller.” —Times Literary Supplement Perhaps the most spectacular of all Greek vases, the Sarpedon krater depicts the body of Sarpedon, a hero of the Trojan War, being carried away to his homeland for burial. It was decorated some 2,500 years ago by Athenian artist Euphronios, and its subsequent history involves tomb raiding, intrigue, duplicity, litigation, international outrage, and possibly even homicide. How this came about is told by Nigel Spivey in a book that braids together the creation and adventures of this extraordinary object with an exploration of its abiding influence. Spivey takes us on a dramatic journey, beginning with the krater’s looting from an Etruscan tomb in 1971 and its acquisition by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, followed by a high-profile lawsuit over its status and its eventual return to Italy. He explains where, how, and why the vase was produced, retrieving what we know about the life and legend of Sarpedon. Spivey also pursues the figural motif of the slain Sarpedon portrayed on the vase and traces how this motif became a standard way of representing the dead and dying in Western art, especially during the Renaissance. Fascinating and informative, The Sarpedon Krater is a multifaceted introduction to the enduring influence of Greek art on the world. “The story of the Sarpedon Krater has been brilliantly told by Nigel Spivey, author and presenter of the BBC television series, How Art Made the World. Spivey traces the strange and wondrous journey of the Sarpedon Krater from ancient Athens in the sixth century B.C.to the present.” —Art Eyewitness
Author : Johan Huizinga
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022676768X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Autumn of the Middle Ages written by Johan Huizinga and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is the first full translation into English of one of the 20th century's few undoubted classics of history." —Washington Post Book World The Autumn of the Middle Ages is Johan Huizinga's classic portrait of life, thought, and art in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century France and the Netherlands. Few who have read this book in English realize that The Waning of the Middle Ages, the only previous translation, is vastly different from the original Dutch, and incompatible will all other European-language translations. For Huizinga, the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century marked not the birth of a dramatically new era in history—the Renaissance—but the fullest, ripest phase of medieval life and thought. However, his work was criticized both at home and in Europe for being "old-fashioned" and "too literary" when The Waning of the Middle Ages was first published in 1919. In the 1924 translation, Fritz Hopman adapted, reduced and altered the Dutch edition—softening Huizinga's passionate arguments, dulling his nuances, and eliminating theoretical passages. He dropped many passages Huizinga had quoted in their original old French. Additionally, chapters were rearranged, all references were dropped, and mistranslations were introduced. This translation corrects such errors, recreating the second Dutch edition which represents Huizinga's thinking at its most important stage. Everything that was dropped or rearranged has been restored. Prose quotations appear in French, with translations preprinted at the bottom of the page, mistranslations have been corrected. "The advantages of the new translation are so many. . . . It is one of the greatest, as well as one of the most enthralling, historical classics of the twentieth century, and everyone will surely want to read it in the form that was obviously intended by the author." —Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books "A once pathbreaking piece of historical interpretation. . . . This new translation will no doubt bring Huizinga and his pioneering work back into the discussion of historical interpretation." —Rosamond McKitterick, New York Times Book Review
Author : J. Noordegraaf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Dutch Pendulum written by J. Noordegraaf and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : André Holenstein
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9089640053
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Republican Alternative written by André Holenstein and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Republican Alternative seeks to move beyond the mere notion of scholarly inquiry into the republic—the subject of recent rediscovery by political historians interested in Europe’s intellectual heritage—by investigating the practical similarities and differences between two early modern republics, as well as their self-images and interactions during the turbulent seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Among the world’s most economically successful societies, Switzerland and the Netherlands laid much of the foundation for their prosperity during the early modern period discussed here. This volume attempts to clarify the special character of these two countries as they developed, including issues of religious plurality, the republican form of government, and an increasingly commercially-driven agrarian society.
Author : Geertje Boschma
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789053565018
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Mental Health Nursing written by Geertje Boschma and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique analysis of psychiatric care and the emerging field of mental health nursing in the Netherlands at the turn of the 19th century.
Author : van den Hoek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004643990
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Ritual, State and History in South Asia written by van den Hoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this Festschrift extend over the whole range of Indian civilization: in the first part the earlier stages of Indian history spanning the period from the Indus civilization up to medieval times, and in the second part the more recent history of South Asia.
Author : Ian Wallace
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051837834
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (378 download)
Download or read book Aliens--Uneingebürgerte written by Ian Wallace and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Paul Hinrichs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nicolaas Van Wijk (1880-1941) written by Jan Paul Hinrichs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Claver
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004263233
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java written by Alexander Claver and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java describes the vanished commercial world of colonial Java. Alexander Claver shows the challenges of a demanding business environment by highlighting trade and finance mechanisms, and the relationships between the participants involved.
Author : Lennart Bes
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004164294
Total Pages : 2409 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Baltic Connections written by Lennart Bes and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 2409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, Northern Europe was a crucible of political, maritime and economic activity. Ships from ports all around the Baltic Sea as well as from the Low Countries plied the Baltic waters, triggering market integration, migration flows, nautical innovations and the dissemination of cultural values. This archival guide is an essential research tool for scholars studying these Baltic connections, providing descriptions of almost 1000 archival collections concerning trade, shipping, merchants, commodities, diplomacy, finances and migration in the years 1450-1800. These rich and varied sources kept at more than 100 repositories in Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Sweden are herewith collected for the first time.
Author : Elizabeth Rankin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110668785
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book From Memory to Marble written by Elizabeth Rankin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-02-10 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the 92-metre frieze of the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria, one of the largest historical narratives in marble, has been made the subject of a book. The pictorial narrative of the Boer pioneers who conquered South Africa’s interior during the 'Great Trek' (1835-52) represents a crucial period of South Africa’s past. Conceptualising the frieze both reflected on and contributed to the country’s socio-political debates in the 1930s and 1940s when it was made. The book considers the active role the Monument played in the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and the development of apartheid, as well as its place in post-apartheid heritage. The frieze is unique in that it provides rare evidence of the complex processes followed in creating a major monument. Based on unpublished documents, drawings and models, these processes are unfolded step by step, from the earliest discussions of the purpose and content of the frieze, through all the stages of its design, to its shipping to post-war Italy to be copied into marble from Monte Altissimo, up to its final installation in the Monument. The book examines how visual representation transforms historical memory in what it chooses to recount, and the forms in which it is depicted. The second volume expands on the first, by investigating each of the twenty-seven scenes of the frieze in depth, providing new insights into not only the frieze, but also South Africa’s history. François van Schalkwyk of African Minds, co-publisher with De Gruyter writes: From Memory to Marble is an open access monograph in the true sense of the word. Both volumes of the digital version of the book are available in full and free of charge from the date of publication. This approach to publishing democratises access to the latest scholarly publications across the globe. At the same time, a book such as From Memory to Marble, with its unique and exquisite photographs of the frieze as well as its wealth of reproduced archival materials, demands reception of a more traditional kind, that is, on the printed page. For this reason, the book is likewise available in print as two separate volumes. The printed and digital books should not be seen as separate incarnations; each brings its own advantages, working together to extend the reach and utility of From Memory to Marble to a range of interested readers.
Author : Ursula Vollerthun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108417140
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Idea of International Society written by Ursula Vollerthun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive account of the initial development of the 'Grotian tradition' in international relations theory, reaching entirely unexpected conclusions.
Author : Sander Govaerts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781641893985
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Armies and Ecosystems in Premodern Europe written by Sander Govaerts and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the ecosystem concept as his starting point, the author examines the complex relationship between premodern armed forces and their environment at three levels: landscapes, living beings, and diseases. The study focuses on Europe's Meuse Region, well-known among historians of war as a battleground between France and Germany. By analyzing soldiers' long-term interactions with nature, this book engages with current debates about the ecological impact of the military, and provides new impetus for contemporary armed forces to make greater effort to reduce their environmental footprint.
Author : Jo Tollebeek
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Writing the Inquisition in Europe and America written by Jo Tollebeek and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American historian Henry Charles Lea and his Belgian colleague Paul Fredericq corresponded regularly between 1888 and 1908. Both pursued the study of the medieval and Spanish Inquisition. Their letters are an account of the creation of their body of work. They also reveal how history was used for political ends in an era when Europe was spellbound by the Dreyfus affair while concerns about "the power of Rome" were growing in America. --Publisher description.
