Cultuurgeschiedenis. Een handboek
Cultuurgeschiedenis. Een handboek

Author: Karel Vanhaesebrouck

Publisher: Asp / Vubpress / Upa

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9789054878926

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Cultuurgeschiedenis. Een handboek" doorloopt in dertien chronologisch geordende hoofdstukken de westerse cultuurgeschiedenis, van de Griekse democratie tot aan de crisis van het postmodernisme. Dit didactisch opgevatte handboek op inleidend niveau besteedt aandacht aan de belangrijkste culturele ontwikkelingen binnen die cultuurgeschiedenis en hun verwevenheid met hun politieke, sociale en economische context. Daarbij wordt geenszins encyclopedische volledigheid nagestreefd. Elk tijdsgewricht wordt vanuit een specifieke culturele invalshoek belicht. Doorheen het boek wordt bijzondere aandacht besteed aan de hedendaagse relevantie van transhistorische ontwikkelingen binnen de cultuurgeschiedenis. Ook de historische bepaaldheid van het 'historisch spreken' zelf vormt een belangrijk aandachtspunt.

Neo-Baroques
Neo-Baroques

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 9004324356

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The Baroque is back in contemporary culture. The ten essays authored by international scholars, and three interventions by artists, examine the return of the baroque as Neo-Baroque through interdisciplinary perspectives. Understanding the Neo-Baroque as transcultural (between different cultures) and transhistorical (between historical moments) the contributors to this volume offer diverse perspectives that suggest the slipperiness of the Neo-Baroque may best be served by the term ‘Neo-Baroques’. Case studies analysed reflect this plurality and include: the productions of Belgian theatre company Abattoir Fermé; Claire Denis’ French New Extremist film Trouble Every Day; the novel Lujuria tropical by exiled El Salvadorian Quijada Urias; the science fiction blockbuster spectacles The Matrix and eXistenZ; and the spectacular grandeur of early Hollywood movie palaces and the contemporary Las Vegas Strip. Contributors: Jens Baumgarten, Marjan Colletti, Bolívar Echeverría, Rita Eder, Hugh Hazelton, Monika Kaup, Peter Krieger, Patrick Mahon, Walter Moser, Angela Ndalianis, Richard Reddaway, Karel Vanhaesebrouck, Saige Walton.

Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture

Author: Jane Fenoulhet

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2016-11-07

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1910634972

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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.

Handbook of Dutch Church History
Handbook of Dutch Church History

Author: Herman J. Selderhuis

Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Published: 2014-12-10

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 3647557870

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Herman Selderhuis as editor of this volume has brought together a team of experts, resulting in a unique approach since each chapter is co-written by a catholic and a protestant author, who have all integrated the latest research results. Each section begins with a brief historiographical overview. The same time, ecclesiastical events are always set within a greater framework of political, social, and cultural developments for which reason each author has taken the liberty to describe its own method. The user will find in this book tables, diagrams, and illustrations. Also many source texts are integrated in the narration. Theses texts are intended to bring the described events and people closer to the reader and, as it were, to let them speak the words. The name of the book as "Handbook of the church history of the Netherlands" immediately brings to mind three problematic complexes which are relevant to its user. First, there is the nature of a handbook, that is intended to be a good tool but also has its limitations: it stimulates and necessitates the use of further books. Second, the area. The Netherlands is a plurality and that is also noticeable in its church history, for each region, town, and village has its own church history. Third, the history of the church for sure is the most important aspect, but this history can only be understood if it is described in the context of political and social developments.

From Herodotus to H-Net
From Herodotus to H-Net

Author: Jeremy D. Popkin

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780190077617

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From Herodotus to H-Net: The Story of Historiography, Second Edition, offers a concise but comprehensive and up-to-date account of the many ways history has been studied and recounted, from the ancient world to the new universe of the Internet. Clearly written and organized, it shows how the same issues that historians debate today were already recognized in past centuries, and how the efforts of historians in the past remain relevant today. Balanced and fair-minded, the book covers the development of modern academic scholarship, but also helps students appreciate the contributions of popular historians and of the many forms of public history. Often drawing on what historians from Edward Gibbon to Natalie Zemon Davis have written about their own careers, From Herodotus to H-Net, Second Edition, brings the discipline of history alive for students and general readers.

The Belgic Confession
The Belgic Confession

Author: Albert J. Coetsee

Publisher: AOSIS

Published: 2023-10-31

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1779952899

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This book investigates the contemporary relevance of the Belgic Confession. The book groups the 37 articles of the Belgic Confession together to cover the confession in 12 chapters (alongside an introductory chapter). The emphasis of the publication falls on two aspects: (1) providing a scope of contemporary theological, ethical and general issues and possible controversies regarding the content of the Belgic Confession, and (2) formulating ethical perspectives and guidelines from the Belgic Confession that may assist in the building of societies. Where applicable, chapters also discuss the history of the text of the Belgic Confession, the organic unity between the articles of the Belgic Confession, a dogma-historical perspective on the development of the doctrine/content of the Belgic Confession and the relationship between the Belgic Confession and other confessions.

Authenticity in the Kitchen
Authenticity in the Kitchen

Author: Richard Hosking

Publisher: Oxford Symposium

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 1903018471

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The Oxford Symposium on Food on Cookery is a premier English conference on this topic. The subjects range from the food of medieval English and Spanish Jews; wild boar in Europe; the identity of liquamen and other Roman sauces; the production of vinegar in the Philippines; the nature of Indian restaurant food; and food in 19th century Amsterdam.