Sound Work - Jonathan Impett - ebook

The practices and perception of music creation have evolved with the cultural, social and technological contexts of music and musicians. But musical authorship, in its many technical and aesthetic mod...

Political Exile in the Twentieth Century - (ISBN: 9789461664228)

This book focuses on the political exile of Catholic Christian Democrats during the global twentieth century, from the end of the First World War to the end of the Cold War. Transcending the common na...

Studies in Latin Literature and Epigraphy in Italian Fascism - eBook (9789461663122)

This book deals with the use of Latin as a literary and epigraphic language under Italian Fascism (1922-1943). The myth of Rome lay at the heart of Italian Fascist ideology, and the ancient language o...

Transfer Thinking in Translation Studies - eBook (9789461663726)

The concept of transfer covers the most diverse phenomena of circulation, transformation and reinterpretation of cultural goods across space and time, and are among the driving forces in opening up th...

The European company law action plan revisited - eBook (9789461660084)

The harmonisation of company law has always been on the agenda of the European Union. Besides the protection of third parties affected by business transactions, the founders had two other objectives:...

Moroccan Migration in Belgium - eBook (9789461662569)

First volume in the new series CeMIS Migration and Intercultural Studies Moroccans are one of the largest and most debated migrant groups in Belgium. Moroccan Migration in Belgium analyses diverse fac...

Missionaries and Resistance in Guatemala - Mario Trinidad - ebook

Christian Homes - eBook (9789461662101)

Christian ideas on family, religion, and the home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The cult of domesticity has often been linked to the privatization of religion and the idealisation of the...

Minoan Earthquakes - eBook (9789461662187)

nterdisciplinary study on the role of earthquakes in the eastern Mediterranean. Does the "Minoan myth" still stand up to scientific scrutiny? Since the work of Sir Arthur Evans at Knossos (Crete, Gree...

Diogenes of Oinoanda · Diogène d'Œnoanda - eBook (9789461662217)

First collection of essays entirely devoted to the inscription of Diogenes of Oinoanda. The texts of Diogenes of Oinoanda (2nd century AD) who invited his readers to an Epicurean life is the largest a...

Religion, Colonization and Decolonization in Congo, 1885-1960. Religion, colonisation et décolonisation au Congo, 1885-1960 - eBook (9789461662941)

Religion in today's Democratic Republic of Congo has many faces: from the overflowing seminaries and Marian shrines of the Catholic Church to the Islamic brotherhoods, from the healers of Kimban-...

The Survival of the Jesuits in the Low Countries, 1773-1850 - eBook (9789461663191)

In 1773, Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society of Jesus. For the 823 Jesuits living in the Low Countries, it meant the end of their institutional religious life. In the Austrian Netherlands, the Jes...

Peter de Rivo on Chronology and the Calendar - eBook (9789461663474)

Peter de Rivo (c.1420-1499), a renowned philosopher active at the University of Leuven, is today mostly remembered for his controversial role in the quarrel over future contingents (1465-1475). Much l...

Summistae - eBook (9789461663702)

Thomas Aquinas' Summa theologiae is one of the classics in the history of theology and philosophy. Beyond its influence in the Middle Ages, its importance is also borne out by the fact that it be...

Performance, Subjectivity, and Experimentation - eBook (9789461663313)

Music reflects subjectivity and identity: that idea is now deeply ingrained in both musicology and popular media commentary. The study of music across cultures and practices often addresses the enactm...

The Art of Being Dangerous - eBook (9789461663825)

The idea that women are dangerous - individually or collectively - runs throughout history and across cultures. Behind this label lies a significant set of questions about the dynamics, conflicts, ide...

The soul-body problem at Paris ca 1200-1250 - Magdalena Bieniak - eBook (9789461660251)

The soul-body problem was among the most controversial issues discussed in 13th century Europe, and it continues to capture much attention today as the quest to understand human identity becomes more...

Ptolemy's tetrabiblos in the translation of William of Moerbeke - eBook (9789461661777)

First ever edition of the Latin translation of Ptolemy's masterwork. This is the first edition ever of Moerbeke's Latin translation of Ptolemy's celebrated astrological handbook, known...

Milk sauce and paprika - Vera Hajtó - eBook (9789461662071)

The compelling story of Hungarian children living with Belgian families during the interwar period. Children who migrated without their families were noteworthy participants of interwar European migra...

Book of Requiems, 1550-1560 - (ISBN: 9789461665133)

Few western musical repertories speak more to the imagination than the Requiem mass for the dead. Yet, surprisingly, despite the significance of Requiem settings for our musical culture, the literatur...