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in 1971 under the auspices of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Today the press has over a thousand books in print, in fields including art, music, religion, philosophy, history, medieval studies, anthropology, psychology, politics, and culture. We publish approximately forty new titles a year by authors from all over the world. About half of our books are in English and/or combined European languages (French, German, Italian); the remaining volumes are in Dutch. All titles are submitted to peer review in order to assess and maintain international academic standards. For more information about Leuven University Press, our books and our publishing program, please visit our new and fully updated website www.lup.be. Leuven University Press is proud to be a full member of the Association of American University Presses.

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Leuven University Press wants to support young and talented photographers by offering a platform for their work on the front cover of our bi-annual catalogue. We invite those interested in submitting their work to send an email with a low-resolution picture to info@upers.kuleuven.be. If your photo is selected for publication, it will be viewed by a wide European audience of academic readers, bookshops and libraries. The selection procedure is based on personal taste only.


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Sagalassos VI

Archaeology

Geo- and Bio-Archaeology in the Territory of Sagalassos Patrick Degryse & Marc Waelkens (eds)

Since 1990, the ancient city of Sagalassos in southwestern Turkey has been the focus of an interdisciplinary archaeological research project coordinated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The papers collected in this volume reveal how the meticulous systematic and interdisciplinary reconstruction of the ecology and economy of the site and its territory has enhanced our understanding of the ancient settlement and its inhabitants beyond the traditional aspects of classical archaeology in Asia Minor. Highlighting geo-archaeological, archaeometrical, and bio-archaeological work performed within the framework of excavations and surveys between 1996 and 2006, this important book’s insights greatly enhance the promotion of real interdisciplinarity in classical archaeology. patrick degryse is Research Professor of Archaeometry and vice-director of the Centre for Archaeological Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

marc waelkens is Professor of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and director of the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project and the Centre for Archaeological Sciences at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

ca. € 75,00 isbn 978 90 5867 661 0 05/2008 21 x 27,5 cm Paperback ca. 342 p. nur 682 Illustrated Sagalassos - volume 6 English

Other publications on the Sagalassos-excavations •

Sagalassos I. First General Report on the Survey (1986-1989) and Excavations (1990-1991) M. Waelkens (ed.), € 61,98, isbn 978 90 6186 529 2, 1993, English

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Sagalassos II. Report on the Third Excavation Campaign of 1992

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Sagalassos III. Report on the Fourth Excavation Campaign of 1993

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Sagalassos IV. Report on the Survey and Excavation Campaigns of 1994 and 1995

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Sagalassos V. Report on the Survey and Excavation Campaigns of 1996 and 1997

M. Waelkens, J. Poblome (eds), € 61,98, isbn 978 90 6186 574 2, 1993, English M. Waelkens, J. Poblome (eds), € 74,37, isbn 978 90 6186 664 0, 1995, English M. Waelkens, J. Poblome (eds), € 123,82, isbn 978 90 6186 845 3, 1997, English M. Waelkens, L. Loots (eds), € 210 71, isbn 978 90 5867 079 3, 2000, English


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Nouvelle approche sémiologique de l’iconographie prédynastique Gwenola Graff

ca. € 75,00 isbn 978 90 5867 662 7 06/2008 21 x 29,7 cm Paperback 450 p. nur 933/682 Illustrated Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 6 French This book includes 650 illustrations

Ce travail propose une nouvelle approche de l’iconographie prédynastique égyptienne. Il s’agit d’étudier les vases à décorations complexes de la culture de Nagada. Le travail présenté ici regroupe pour la première fois le plus vaste ensemble possible de ces objets. L’ensemble fournit près de 650 documents, dont un certain nombre d’inédits. Le décor de ces vases a été analysé selon les principes de la sémiologie. Cette étude s’inscrit dans un contexte historique d’une période préparatoire à l’écriture et à la civilisation pharaonique sur lequel elle permet de donner un éclairage original. Le travail se présente sous la forme de deux volumes : le premier contient l’étude et les planches qui l’accompagnent. Le second est divisé en deux parties : la première est un inventaire des signes. La seconde partie du deuxième volume est consacrée au corpus des objets, comportant une illustration de bonne qualité et les renseignements muséographiques et bibliographiques les concernant.

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A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter

Archaeology

Archaeology

Les peintures sur vases de Nagada I – Nagada II

Pierre M. Vermeersch (ed.)

The prehistory of the Eastern Desert of Egypt is not well understood. A Holocene Prehistoric Sequence in the Egyptian Red Sea Area: The Tree Shelter is an important contribution to our knowledge of the Epi-Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Predynastic occupation of the area. It presents the results of an excavation of a small rock shelter near Quseir, Egypt, which is one of the rare stratified sites in the Eastern Egyptian desert. The stratigraphic sequence starts around 8000 bp and continues until about 5000 bp. The archaeological material attests clear connections with the Nile Valley and the Western Desert during the wet Holocene period. Topics covered in the book include the site’s lithics and ceramics, microwear analysis of the lithic artefacts, and the woody vegetation of the Neolithic period. pierre m. vermeersch is Emeritus Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit

This work proposes a new approach to Egyptian Predynastic iconography, based essentially on a study of vases with complex painted decorations from the prehistoric Naqada culture. It describes and illustrates for the first time 650 of these objects–the widest collection yet to be studied–along with some unpublished material. The author fully explains the rules of composition and the implementation of the decoration, thus elucidating the image function as well as the origin of some iconographic themes of the Pharaonic period. The book’s original and instructive perspective defines the historic context, revealing a period getting ready for the emergence of writing and Pharaonic civilization.

Leuven, in the Department of Geography-Geology where he was in charge of Prehistory and Quaternary. He is member of the The Royal Flemish Academy

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of Belgium for Arts and Sciences.

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contributors A.P. Kweakason, V. Linseele, E. Marinova, J. Moeyersons,

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B. Vanmontfort, W. Van Neer, P. Van Peer, P. M. Vermeersch

21 x 29,7 cm Paperback 112 p. nur 933/682 Illustrated Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 7 English This book includes more than 60 pictures and drawings

gwenola graff est chargée de recherche à l’Institut de Recherche sur le Développement (France), rattachée au Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe-Afrique (lampea ).

gwenola graff is research worker at the ‘Institut de Recherche sur le Développement’

Also published in the series Egyptian Prehistory Monographs •

Palaeolithic Living Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt

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Mahgar Dendera 2 (Haute Egypte), un site d’occupation Badarien.

(France), of the ‘Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe-Afrique (lampea )’

P. M. Vermeersch (ed.), € 30,99, isbn 978 90 5867 064 9, 2000, English S. Hendrickx, B. Midant-Reynes, W. Van Neer, € 45,00, isbn 978 90 5867 163 9, 2001, French •

Palaeolithic Quarrying Sites in Upper and Middle Egypt P. M. Vermeersch (ed.), € 45,00, isbn 978 90 5867 266 7, 2003, English


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Cultural History

Sources of Regionalism in the Nineteenth-Century Architecture, Art and Literature Linda Van Santvoort, Jan De Maeyer & Tom Verschaffel (eds)

Architectural concepts and styles seem to flourish from the most local of contexts to the global. This book investigates the regional, often conceived today as a late nineteenth-century phenomenon, primarily on account of the preservation and restoration movements that arose. An interdisciplinary approach to regionalism, as manifested not only in architecture but also in art and literature, necessitates a more thorough examination of the complexity and multilayered quality of the phenomenon. The research is limited in time to the nineteenth century plus the years leading up to the First World War, and in place to Western Europe, with an emphasis on Belgium, France and England, and to a lesser extent on the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. Derived from the workshop ‘The Sources of Regionalism’ (Ghent, 2004) held by the fwo research group World Views, Cultural Identities and Architecture in Western Europe, 1815-1940, the essays in this book examine the meaning of regionalism in architecture, art, and literature, its sources, and its cultural and historical background.

ca. € 65,00 isbn 978 90 5867 649 8 03/2008 22,5 x 28 cm Hardcover ca. 196 p.

linda van santvoort is PhD in Art History and Professor at the U.Gent.

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Her research focuses on architecture and conservation in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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jan de maeyer is PhD in History and director of kadoc (Documentation and Research

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Center for Religion, Culture and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). His research focuses

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on religion, society and art in the 19th and 20th centuries.

tom verschaffel is PhD in History and Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of the 18th and 19th centuries.

contributors R. Colls, Y. Schoonjans, G. Palmaerts, B. Mihaïl, J. McKean, D. De Geest, L. Van Santvoort, J. De Maeyer, E. Van Impe, E. Storm


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The Transformation of the Christian Churches in Western Europe (1945-2000)

Tensions between Nationalism and Regionalism

Leo Kenis, Jaak Billiet & Patrick Pasture (eds)

in the Nineteenth Century Wolfgang Cortjaens, Jan De Maeyer & Tom Verschaffel (eds)

ca. € 65,00 isbn 978 90 5867 666 5 05/2008 22,5 x 28 cm Hardcover ca. 350 p. nur 694 Illustrated kadoc Artes 10 English, German

Based on the cultural insight that ‘historism’ – understood as the projection of the past into the present by artistic means, or the ‘invention of tradition’ – always occurs in close connection with the emergence of nation states, this volume describes for the first time the cultural and denominational character and development of the Maas-Rhine region during the period between the French Revolution and the First World War. Seventeen contributions shed new and revealing light on the cultural identity of this Catholic-dominated core region of Europe, using the defining term ‘historism’ as the historiographical element that unifies the book’s four sections (Social and Church Historical Context, The Organisational Structure of Ecclesiastical Art, Centres of Art, ‘Grenzgänger’: between Theory and Praxis). wolfgang cortjaens is PhD in Art History (Universität Aachen). His research focuses

Historism and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Meuse Region

on 19th-century art and architecture.

jan de maeyer is PhD in History and director of kadoc (Documentation and Research Center for Religion, Culture and Society, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). His research focuses on religion, society and art in the 19th and 20th centuries.

tom verschaffel is PhD in History and Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His research focuses on the cultural and intellectual history of the 18th and 19th centuries.

contributors B. Schneider, T. Verschaffel, W. Cortjaens, A. Jacobs, K. Hardering, J. De Maeyer, L. Schiphorst, W. van Leeuwen, A. Looyenga, P. Lingens, J.-P. Duchesne, I. Graulich, M. Krautwurst, U. Liessem, A. Bergmans

Research continues to show that the Christian religion is gradually disappearing from the public, cultural and social spheres in Western Europe. Even on the individual level, institutionalised religion is becoming increasingly marginalised. Some scholars, however, speak of a repositioning of the Christian churches in post-modern Europe, citing new forms of religious life and community. This book focuses on the complex mutations the Christian churches in Western Europe have experienced since World War II. The authors offer a comparative exploration of the situations in several countries and describe the evolution (including the specific growth and decline) of the various Christian denominations.

leo kenis is PhD in Theology and Professor in History of Church and Theology at the Katholieke

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Universiteit Leuven. His research focuses on the history of Church and Theology in the 19th and

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20th centuries.

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jaak billiet is PhD in Social Sciences and Emeritus Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit

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Leuven. His research focuses on pillarization and statistical methods. He is member of the

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central coordination team of the European Social Survey.

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patrick pasture is PhD in History and Associate Professor in History at the Katholieke

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Universiteit Leuven, where he co-ordinates the research unit Modernity & Society 1800-2000

kadoc Studies on Religion,

(MoSa). His research focuses on European labor history and the social history of Christianity

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in Europe and North America.

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contributors K. Dobbelaere, J. Billiet, L. Voyé, H. McLeod, J. Butler, W. Damberg, P. Pasture, Historismus und kulturelle Identität im Raum Rhein-Maas Wolfgang Cortjaens, Jan De Maeyer & Tom Verschaffel, eds.

E. Fouilloux, L. Winkeler, G.-R. Horn, P. Chenaux, J. Gootaers, A. Birmelé, J. Schmiedl, B. Cambré, A.-M. Korte, J. Verstraeten, A. Houtepen, H. Ucko

Leuven University Press

Also published in the series kadoc Studies on Religion, Culture and Society: •

Christian Democratic Parties in Europe since the End of the Cold War S. Van Hecke, E.Gerard (eds), € 29,00, isbn 978 90 5867 377 0, 2004, English

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Religious Institutes in Western Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries S. Leplae, J. Schmiedl, J. De Maeyer (eds), € 26,00, isbn 978 90 5867 402 9, 2004, English & French

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Religion, Children’s Literature and Modernity in Western Europe, 1750-2000 J. De Maeyer, H. H. Ewers, R. Ghesquière, M. Manson, P. Pinsent, P. Quaghebeur (eds) € 45,00, isbn 978 90 5867 497 5, 2005, English

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The Papacy and the New World Order V. Viaene (ed.), € 38,00, isbn 978 90 5867 518 7, 2005, English & French

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Towards an Era of Development. The Globalization of Socialism and Christian Democracy, 1945-1965 P. Van Kemseke, € 32,00, isbn 978 90 5867 560 6, 2007, English

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Cultural History

Cultural History

Historism and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Meuse Region


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« Recevez ce mien petit labeur »

De klassieke politieke economie en het Belgische landbouwbeleid

Studies in Renaissance Music in Honour of Ignace Bossuyt

1830-1884

Mark Delaere & Pieter Bergé (eds)

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Musicology

Economic and Agricultural History

De wetenschap van de wetgever Maarten Van Dijck

ca. € 45,00 isbn 978 90 5867 673 3 05/2008 17,5 x 23,5 cm Paperback ca. 400 p. nur 696

In 1936 schreef de befaamde economist John Maynard Keynes: ‘ideas of economists and political philosophers are more powerful than is commonly understood’. Keynes ging daarmee in tegen de diepgewortelde overtuiging in de studie van de politieke besluitvorming dat belangen van economische aard vaak allesbepalend zijn. De belangrijkste strekkingen in het hedendaagse onderzoek naar politieke besluitvorming slagen er niet in om ideeën een duidelijke plaats te geven. In dit boek wordt de uitspraak van Keynes met een nieuw denkkader over de verhouding tussen ideeën en belangen getoetst aan een Belgische casus. Er wordt onderzocht of de liberale economische wetenschap zich kon opdringen als richtsnoer voor het Belgische landbouwbeleid tussen 1830 en 1884. De landbouwpolitiek vormt een interessante casus omdat de economisten het intrekken van de protectionistische graanwetten als een eerste graadmeter voor hun succes beschouwden. Bovendien werd België in het midden van de negentiende eeuw geteisterd door een belangrijke voedselcrisis. De opvattingen van de economisten en hun inspanningen om de politieke economie te verspreiden worden onderzocht, evenals de politieke besluitvorming over staatsinterventie in de landbouw en het graanhandelsbeleid.

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teit Leuven. His research covers mainly music from the 20th and 21st centuries, with a special focus on the interaction of analysis, history, theory and aesthetics of music.

maarten van dijck is als wetenschappelijk medewerker verbonden aan kadoc,

at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. His main research topics are Arnold

het Katholiek Documentatiecentrum van de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Schoenberg, German opera during the Weimar Republic, Formenlehre, instrumental music from 1770-1830, and ‘analysis-and-performance’-issues.

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contributors P. Bergé, P. Bergquist, S. Boorman, D. J. Burn, M. Delaere,

Economische groei en levensstandaard

W. Elders, I. Fenlon, S. Gallagher, B. Haggh, J. Irving, E. Jas, M. S. Lewis, F. Luisi,

Y. Segers

L. Lütteken, N. Meeùs, J. Milsom, K. Schiltz, B. Schmid, T. Schmidt-Beste,

€ 68,00, isbn 978 90 5867 333 6, 2003

E. Schreurs, H. Vanhulst, R. C. Wegman

In het spoor van Demeter B. Woestenborghs, R. Hermans, Y. Segers € 20,00, isbn 978 90 5867 493 7, 2005

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Gids van landbouwarchieven in België, 1795-2000 C. Matthys, W. Lefebvre € 29,50, isbn 978 90 5867 574 3, 2007

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mark delaere is Professor and Head of Musicology at the Katholieke Universi-

pieter bergé is Professor of Music Analysis, History and Theory (1750-1900)

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After a distinguished career of more than 35 years, Ignace Bossuyt retired as professor at the Musicology Department of the University of Leuven on October 1st 2007. As an internationally recognised leader in the field of later-16th-century music, Bossuyt consolidated the department’s reputation as a centre of excellence in renaissance music studies. Articles in this volume deal with music from the period on which the dedicatee focussed his own research. Subjects discussed include newly discovered music by Philippe de Monte and Heinrich Isaac, humour in the motets of Orlando di Lasso, the beginnings of music history, compositional procedures in renaissance music, and Tinctoris’s art of listening. A wide range of methodological perspectives is offered, including historiography, reception studies, source studies, music analysis, music theory, style studies, and aesthetics of music. The publication is both a Festschrift in which distinguished specialists honour an outstanding colleague, and a Liber Amicorum compiled for a dear friend.

03/2008 16 x 24 cm Hardcover 316 p. nur 664 Illustrated English, French, German, Italian


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Contemporary Photography

Photography between Poetry and Politics The Critical Position of the Photographic Medium in Contemporary Art

Hilde Van Gelder & Helen Westgeest (eds)

This book examines a recurrent question in recent literature on the use of the photographic medium in contemporary art. It is concerned with the multiformity of ways the photograph manifests itself in diverse artistic practices today, and with the consequences of this situation for photography’s critical potential. Central to this discussion is the question whether photography has a hybrid or chameleonic character because it can be part of entirely different mixed-media works of art. The book also raises such questions as: Does the photo-image nowadays serve mainly as a useful tool to make a renewed kind of tableau, often marked by a rather noncommittal and ‘poetic’ visual imagery? When photographic practices aim at raising a critical debate on the internal workings of the artistic system itself or on broader social problems, is the photograph then able to distinguish itself from a merely ‘political’ statement or a pamphlet? A distinguished variety of authors, all specialists in the field of contemporary photography, offer their viewpoints on this debate.

ca. € 27,50 isbn 978 90 5867 664 1 05/2008 17 x 23 cm Paperback ca. 208 p.

hilde van gelder is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the

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K.U. Leuven. Her research concentrates on postwar art and photography.

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helen westgeest is Professor at the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

Lieven Gevaert Series 7

History and Theory of Photography at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands

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contributors S. Cochran, T.J. Demos, S. Faulkner, C. Lauson, S. Laxton, A. Marsh, A. Moschovi, A. Streitberger, H. Westgeest, M. Widrich Other publications in the Lieven Gevaert Series •

Paranoid Obstructions. Els Vanden Meersch, € 24,00, isbn 978 90 5867 437 1, 2004, English

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In the Name of Mozart. Photographs by Malou Swinnen H. Van Gelder (ed.), € 15,00, isbn 978 90 5867 569 9, 2006, English

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Critical Realism in Contemporary Art. Around Allan Sekula’s Photography

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Collective Inventions. Surrealism in Belgium

J. Baetens, H. Van Gelder (eds), € 22,50, isbn 978 90 5867 563 7, 2006, English P. Allmer, H. Van Gelder (eds), € 24,50, isbn 978 90 5867 592 7, 2007, English •

Philosophy of Photography H. Van Lier, € 27,50, isbn 978 90 5867 598 9, 2007, English


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Gábor Boros, Herman De Dijn & Martin Moors (eds)

€ 34,50 isbn 978 90 5867 651 1 01/2007 16 x 24 cm Paperback 272 p. nur 732 English, French, German Co-publication with Eötvös University Press

‘Love is joy with the accompanying idea of an external cause.’ Spinoza’s definition of love (Ethics Book 3, Prop. lix) manifests a major paradigm shift achieved by seventeenth century Europe in which the emotions, formerly seen as normative ‘forces of nature,’ were embraced by the new science of the mind. We are determined to volition by causes. This shift has often been seen as a transition from a philosophy laden with implicit values and assumptions to a more scientific and value-free way of understanding human action. But is this rational approach really value-free? Today we incline to believe that values are inescapable, and that the descriptivemechanical method implies its own set of values. Yet the assertion by Spinoza, Malebranche, Leibniz, and Enlightenment thinkers that love guides us to wisdom – and even that the love of a God who creates and maintains order and harmony in the world forms the core of ethical behaviour – still resonates powerfully with us. It is, evidently, an idea we are unwilling to relinquish. This collection of insightful essays emerged from two ‘ContactFora’ organized within the framework of the research project Actuality of the Enlightenment: The Moral Science of Emotions, conducted under the auspices of Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten. It offers a range of important and fascinating perspectives on how the triumph of ‘reason’ affected not only our scientific-philosophical understanding of the emotions and especially of love, but our everyday understanding as well. gábor boros is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Faculty of Arts of Lorand Eötvös University Budapest.

herman de dijn is Professor of Modern Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

martin moors is Professor of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Religion and Head of the Department of Metaphysics and Modern Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

contributors D. Kambouchner, S. James, C. Jaquet, W. Bartuschat, H. De Dijn, G. Boros, T. Schmaltz, D. Schmal, C. Wilson, A. Garrett, W. Lemmens, M. Vassányi, M. Moors, H. Klemme

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Henrici de Gandavo Summa

Philosophy

Philosophy

The Concept of Love in 17th and 18th Century Philosophy

Quaestiones ordinariae, art. XLVII-LII Markus L. Führer (ed.)

Volume 30 of the Henrici de Gandavo Opera Omnia series is devoted to Henry’s Summa quaestionum ordinariarum, articles 47-52. This section of Henry’s Summa deals with the action of the (divine) will; the divine will in relation to the divine intellect; divine beatitude; passion in relation to the divine being; the differences between the divine attributes; and the order of the divine attributes. The critical edition of the text is accompanied by a detailed introduction to the manuscripts and to Henry’s sources.

€ 69,50 isbn 978 90 5867 638 2 01/2008 16 x 24 cm Hardcover lx-298 p. nur 732 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy – series 2 – 30 English

markus l. führer is Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, usa.

Henrici de Gandavo Quaestiones Variae Girard J. Etzkorn (ed.)

In the process of completing his critical edition of Marcus of Orvieto’s Liber de Moralitatibus, Dr. Girard J. Etzkorn happened upon a set of questions attributed to Henry of Ghent at the end of Rome’s Bibliotheca Angelica codex 750. These questions are edited in this volume under the proviso ‘attributed to’ so that scholars may compare the texts with other works of the Ghentian master known to be authentic. Based upon some intitial comparisons Etzkorn concludes that the ten questions appear to be of two literary genres. The first six are best fitted into the category of Disputed Questions while Questions seven to ten are better characterized as Quodlibetal questions given their relative brevity and small number of objections ‘pro’ and ‘contra’. Moreover, the ten questions seem to be ‘selected’ questions and were not likely disputed at the same time. Future investigations are essential to find out if the questions may indeed be attributed to Henry himself or whether they have been written by one of Henry’s disciples who was ‘copying’ the thoughts and words of the master. Prior to his retirement in 1995 girard j. etzkorn was a Research Professor at St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan Institute.

ca. € 49,50 isbn 978 90 5867 660 3 03/2008 16 x 24 cm Paperback ca. xvi-112 p. nur 732 Ancient and Medieval Philosophy – series 2 – 38 English


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Miroir et Savoir

Philosophy

Philosophy

Henricus Bate. Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium

La transmission d’un thème platonicien, des Alexandrins à la philosophie arabo-musulmane Daniël De Smet, Meryem Sebti & Godefroid de Callataÿ (eds)

Henry Bate’s Speculum divinorum (ca. 1285-1302) is a huge philosophical encyclopedia in which the author depicts his Neoplatonic-Peripatetic world-view. Dwelling on a rich variety of Greek, Arabic, Hebrew and Latin sources, he thoroughly discusses all main issues of Aristotle’s natural philosophy (including psychology) and metaphysics, and systematically attempts to reconcile the Aristotelian perspective with the viewpoint of Plato and late ancient Platonists. Though deeply influenced by both Averroes and Aquinas, he is neither an Averroist nor a Thomist. Rather, Bate’s Mirror reflects Albert the Great’s ideal of the fiducia philosophantis, whose ‘intellect is enlightened in accord with heavenly beauty.’ •

Henricus Bate. Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium Parts xi-xii: On Platonic Philosophy H. Boese (ed.) € 64,45, isbn 9787 90 6186 372 4, 1990, hardcover

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Henricus Bate. Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium Parts iv-v: On the Nature of Matter. On the Intellect of Man C. Steel (ed.) € 64,45, isbn 9787 90 6186 563 6, 1993, hardcover

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Henricus Bate. Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium

Grâce à sa grande richesse, la métaphore platonicienne du miroir a été adoptée, amplifiée et élaborée dans l’Antiquité par une multitude d’auteurs, certes tous d’inspiration platonicienne, mais appartenant à la fois au paganisme et au christianisme. Lorsqu’on étudie cette métaphore dans le corpus philosophique, mystique et poétique en terre d’Islam, on constate qu’il ne s’agit pas d’une récurrence fortuite, d’un lieu commun, d’un archétype de la pensée humaine. Il s’agit au contraire de l’adoption d’un thème précis, toujours lié à un contexte platonicien malgré la pluralité des courants dans lesquels il apparaît. Les contributeurs au livre Miroir et Savoir se sont attachés à étudier les modalités selon lesquelles le thème platonicien du miroir est passé du paganisme et du christianisme à la culture arabo-musulmane, de la langue grecque et syriaque à l’arabe et au persan. Ils ont tenté de dévoiler les mécanismes de ces passages et d’en déterminer l’enjeu conceptuel. Cet ouvrage espère ainsi apporter une contribution au dossier de l’histoire de la réception du corpus philosophique grec dans le monde arabo-musulman.

Parts vi-vii: On the Unity of the Intellect. On the Platonic Doctrine of the Ideas

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daniel de smet est Directeur de Recherche au cnrs (Villejuif). Ses recherches

€ 64,45, isbn 9787 90 6186 584 1, 1994, hardcover

concernent la transmission et l’influence de la philosophie tardo-antique dans l’islam,

Henricus Bate. Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium

ainsi que le chiisme ismaélien.

Parts xx-xxii: On the Heavens, the Divine Movers and the First Intellect

meryem sebti est Chargée de Recherche au cnrs (Villejuif), où elle dirige le projet

C. Steel, G. Guldentops (eds)

‘Noétique et théorie de la connaissance dans la philosophie arabe des ix2-xvii2 siècles.

€ 69,41, isbn 9787 90 6186 776 0, 1997, hardcover

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Henricus Bate. Speculum divinorum et quorundam naturalium

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Parts xiii-xiv: On thinking and Happiness

Sincères’ (Rasa’ il Ihwan al Safa) et de la tradition scientifique arabe.

G. Guldentops (ed.)

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M. Sebti, D. De Smet, G. de Callataÿ, J. Janssens, J. Van Haeperen, H. Landolt, S.H. Rizvi, C. Van Ruymbeke

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C. Steel, E. Van de Vyver (ed.)

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Science Translated

Medieval Studies

Latin and Vernacular Translations of Scientific Treatises in Medieval Europe Michèle Goyens, Pieter De Leemans & An Smets (eds)

Medieval translators played an important role in the development and evolution of a scientific lexicon. At a time when most scholars deferred to authority, the translations of canonical texts assumed great importance. Moreover, translation occurred at two levels in the Middle Ages. First, Greek or Arabic texts were translated into the learned language, Latin. Second, Latin texts became source-texts themselves, to be translated into the vernaculars as their importance across Europe started to increase. The situation of the respective translators at these two levels was fundamentally different: whereas the former could rely on a long tradition of scientific discourse, the latter had the enormous responsibility of actually developing a scientific vocabulary. The contributions in the present volume investigate both levels, greatly illuminating the emergence of the scientific terminology and concepts that became so fundamental in early modern intellectual discourse. The scientific disciplines covered in the book include, among others, medicine, biology, astronomy, and physics.

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an smets is Research Fellow in the research group French, Italian and comparative linguistics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her research focuses on the translations of Latin scientific texts in Middle French, especially of falconry treatises.

contributors C. Burnett, C. Di Martino, M. Reichert, J.M.Fradejas Rueda, I. Dines, O. Merisalo, P. Pahta, P. Beullens, I. Ventura, C. Martin, J. Ducos, A.V. Brovarone, L. Moulinier-Brogi, S. Toniato, H. Gerner, T. Hunt, S. Marruncheddu, A. Smets, M. Toulan, G. Veysseyre, F. Capaccioni, M. Elsakkers, E. Huizenga, O. Lie. Also published in the series Mediaevalia Lovaniensia •

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“Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?”

Journal of Neo-Latin Studies

Dedicating Latin Works and Motets in the Sixteenth Century

Editorial Board: Gilbert Tournoy & Dirk Sacré,

Ignace Bossuyt, Nele Gabriëls, Dirk Sacré & Demmy Verbeke (eds)

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Neo-Latin Studies

Neo-Latin Studies

Humanistica Lovaniensia Monique Mund-Dopchie & Jan Papy

Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, published annually, is the leading journal in the field of medieval, Renaissance, and modern Latin. As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the journal is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Its systematic bibliography of Neo-Latin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes, is the standard annual bibliography of publications in the field. The journal is fully indexed (names, mss., Neo-Latin neologisms). gilbert tournoy is Professor of Classical, Medieaval and Renaissance Latin at the K.U. Leuven. His research focuses on Latin Literature of the Italian Humanism and Humanism in the Low Countries.

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During the sixteenth century, the traditional act of dedicating a text took on a new meaning due to the wider dissemination of the printed book. As the dedication and other paratexts thus became an almost indispensable part of the publication, they merit careful examination by those who study the presentation and impact of any printed work in its context. Paratexts bridge the gap between the outside world of the reading public and the enclosed world of the book, and often present biographical information concerning the persons involved in the making of the book. In the present volume, general reflections as well as case studies in the field of paratexts to Latin works and to musical compositions on Latin texts consider and exemplify these as well as other aspects of paratexts. The multidisciplinary perspective further enriches the insight in form, function and nature of the dedicatory act in the sixteenth century. A synthesis of the nature of the sixteenth-century dedication is thus presented, relevant not only to Neo-Latinists and musicologists, but also to (book) historians, philologists, and others.

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Table of Contents: Humanistica Lovaniensia Volume LVI

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Leuven, and collaborator of the Alamire Foundation.

Supplementa Humanistica –

Lovaniensis. The Louvain Humanists and the Motif of Lucretia’s Suicide - T. Gärtner, Untersuchungen zur

dirk sacré is Professor of Latin and Neo-Latin at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

volume 23

Rezeption des Caesar-und-Pompeius-Stoffs in der lateinischen Renaissancetragödie - H. Hofmann, The Shield

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Henry Jason: una nueva interpretacíon de la paradoja Latine loqui corrumpit ipsam Latinitatem y de sus poste-

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Entomologiae Neapolitanae specimen primum, Praefatio: analisi della struttura argomentativa - G. Barber,

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Latin and Greek Versions & Tributes by Eric Arthur Barber (1888-1965) Rector of Exeter College, Oxford 2. Instrumentum criticum: V. Olszaniec, Ad Francisci Petrarcae Itinerarium in Sepulchrum Christi observatiuncula critica - D. Sacré, Poliziano’s letter to Timoteo and Luigi Balbani from the Collection of Autographs in Mariemont, Belgium: Three Textual Notes - D. Sacré, An Unknown Edition of Two Latin Poems of Maffeo Barberini (Urban VIII) - F. Nicolae, Foreign Names in Dimitrie Cantemir’s historical works - T. Van Hal, Towards Meta-Neo-Latin Studies? Impetus to Debate on the Field of Neo-Latin Studies and its Methodology, 3. Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum; 4. Instrumentum lexicographicum; 5. Nuntius; 6. Indices This series is available on standing order. If you place a standing order you will automatically receive each new volume. To sign up for a subscription to this series or for more information please contact us at info@upers.kuleuven.be


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Lessen voor de xxi ste eeuw

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Marie-Claire Foblets (ed.)

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Waarmee houden wetenschappers vandaag de dag zich bezig? En welke invloed hebben hun ideeën en ontdekkingen op ons en op de wereld om ons heen? Deze vraag vormt het uitgangspunt van de jaarlijkse terugkerende en inmiddels zeer gewaardeerde lezingenreeks ‘Lessen voor de xxi-ste eeuw’ van de K.U.Leuven. De veertiende editie ‘Denken en weten over de wereld’ gunt het algemene publiek een blik achter de schermen van het laboratorium, het atelier of de studeerkamer en laat zien op welke wijze klimaatverandering, voedselvoorziening, opvoeden en onderwijs, bierbrouwen, humor, beeldcultuur en milieu, de rol van de usa, medische statistiek, het levenseinde of navelstrengbloed een impact hebben op het dagelijkse leven.

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What preoccupies scientists today? What is the impact of their ideas and discoveries on ourselves and on our society? This question is the starting point of the ‘Lectures for the twenty-first century’. Parallel to the established Dutch series, this year for the first time an English edition was organized. This first English edition offers an international audience a glimpse behind the scenes of the laboratories, the work shops or the studies and shows how linguistic justice, the history of Belgium, Fair Play, food supplies, global change, cultural identity, China and the global environmental government, civil law, bioinformatics, molecular medicine, art and cultural identity of the Low Countries and vortices in nature impact our daily lives.

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contributors Ph. Van Parijs, T. Pauwels, R. Renson, D. Raes, M. Sintubin, G. Van Riel, H. Bruyninckx, L. Waelkens, B. de Moor, B. De Strooper, L. Beheydt, V. Moshalkov

Dedicated to increasing our knowledge and awareness of the ever-growing diversity and pluralism of global society, Forum A. & A. Leysen has initiated an annual debate/lecture series, beginning with a focus on Islam in today’s world and in Europe in particular. Seven well-known influential authorities – each an active participant in the public debate on the global role of Islam past, present and future – recently presented papers at the first Intercultural Relations Conference sponsored by Forum A.& A. Leysen. These important contributions, on the topic Islam and Europe: Challenges and Possibilities, are reprinted in this volume. Although each contributor speaks from his own distinctive point of view, a common message emerges from all seven texts: only dialogue – on the one hand between the West (countries that manifest themselves as Western Democratic constitutional states) and Islam, and on the other hand within and among societies historically identified with Islam – will overcome entrenched confrontation and negative animosity, engender new possibilities and understandings, and, by encouraging free and critical thinking, pave the way to social equity and the scientific innovation that, potentially, can lead to more prosperity. In the course of the conference all seven talks led to fascinating debates. This book includes the most important questions asked and the speakers’ responses. Although the question of how to actually construct the dialogue remains unsettled, this ground-breaking book takes a giant step toward an answer. speakers John Richard Bowen, Ruud Peters, Bassam Tibi, Tariq Modood, Nasr Abu Zayd, Sadik Al-Azm, Tariq Ali

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