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Courtney Floyd created the doc Alt-Ac Cover Letter 2020 in the group
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Poëzieweek 2021—Een homerisch welkom: Erasmus groet Filips de Schone (1504) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoWe schrijven Brussel. 6 januari 1504. De Rotterdamse humanist Desiderius Erasmus staat op het spreekgestoelte en heeft zojuist de lof van de Bourgondische prins Filips de Schone (1478–1506) gezongen. In het Latijn, natuurlijk: dat was toen de cultuurtaal bij uitstek. Maar Erasmus heeft nog een toemaatje voor Filips in petto: hij rondt zijn l…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Nota’s nemen in 16de-eeuws Leuven: Een database van tekstboeken uit het Drietalencollege in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDe afgelopen twintig jaar heeft het onderzoek naar (studenten)notities in vroegmoderne tekstedities een enorme groei gekend. Hoewel deze recente studies tot belangrijke inzichten in de lespraktijk hebben geleid, blijven het vaak ad hoc-analyses die (1) diepgaandere implicaties over het studieobject achterwege laten en (2) een traditionele…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Accouplement: vicissitudes of an architectural motif in classical France in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoCoupled columns in French architecture and the reaction to their use from the Renaissance up to the classical rationalism of the early twentieth century hinged on the debates regarding the relation- ship between structural stability and visual delight, over the backdrop of the search for a national classical tradition. This architectural motif was…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited De Grieken, babbelziek volk! Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484–1558), lidwoordhater in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHet Latijn heeft geen lidwoord zoals bijvoorbeeld het Nederlands (de, het) of het Oudgrieks (ho, hē, tó), en dat vond de 16de-eeuwse humanist Julius Caesar Scaliger prima. De grootse taal van Rome kon het makkelijk stellen zonder dat pietluttige woordje. Toegegeven, het kan soms nuttig zijn om aan te geven dat je een specifiek object op het oog h…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Wanneer Latijn niet volstaat: John Palsgrave, schrijver van het eerste handboek Frans (1530), en het Grieks in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHet Latijn, de taal van de Romeinen, heeft lange tijd zijn stempel gedrukt op de taalkunde en taalbeschrijving, niet alleen in de oudheid, maar ook in de middeleeuwen en de Renaissance, wanneer men de talige diversiteit van de wereld gestaag ontdekte. De meest uiteenlopende talen werden met wisselend succes gegoten in de mal van het Latijnse…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Vakantie in eigen land: Manneken Pis à la grecque in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMet de wereld op stelten is het tegenwoordig niet evident om van de mediterrane zon te genieten, al moet het weer in de Lage Landen de laatste jaren niet veel meer onderdoen. Mocht je toch snakken naar een zweempje Griekenland deze zomer, dan biedt de dichter van Gentse origine Daniël Heinsius (1580–1655) misschien een tegengif.
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Hugo Grotius’ kist, eigendom van de Muzen: Een Grieks gedicht over zijn beruchte ontsnapping opgeduikeld in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoExact 398 jaar geleden ontsnapte de beroemde Nederlandse jurist, filoloog en diplomaat Hugo Grotius (de Groot, 1583–1645) op spectaculaire wijze uit Slot Loevestein in een kist, geholpen door zijn vrouw en zijn dienstmeid. Grotius zat daar een levenslange straf uit vanwege zijn remonstrantse sympathieën. Het regime was er evenwel nogal losjes: Gr…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited The Art of Spanish in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years ago1492 was a momentous year for Spain. The Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus set foot in the Americas, leading to the continent’s largescale colonization by Europeans. Columbus did so by order of the so-called Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, while actually trying to discover a new travel r…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited An ablative for the Greeks? Frischlin vs. Crusius on grammar (II) in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIn the new “Ad fontes” feature of Adendros, I want to offer English translations of short source texts or text excerpts from the history of (Greek) language studies which struck me as particularly interesting, enlightening, or enticing.
Today: part two of a grammar dispute between Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin and Martin Crusius, two six…[Read more]
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Raf Van Rooy deposited Hadrianus Amerotius: de eerste Griekse grammaticus van de Lage Landen in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoVandaag is het exact 500 jaar geleden dat Hadrianus Amerotius’ (ca. 1495-1560) Compendium Graecae grammatices te Leuven verscheen in het atelier van Dirk Martens.
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Fragmento e todo: duas imagens urbanas entre oriente e ocidente, c. 1600 in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis article analyzes representations of cities in two pictures created around 1600: Theodor de Bry’s engraving of Macao, and the views of Kyoto attributed to Iwasa Katsumochi Matabei. The relationship between fragmented and total forms of repre- sentation is studied in both pictures. The European engraving depicts urban space as a whole, while t…[Read more]
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Manfred Engel deposited Mediating the Dream / Les genres et médias du rêve. Ed. by Bernard Dieterle and Manfred Engel. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2020 (Cultural Dream Studies; 4) — Contents and Preface in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years agoRepresentations of dreams – no matter if factual or fictional – are influenced not only by cultural patterns but also by the specific opportunities offered and the specific challenges posed by the genre or medium which was chosen for them. The essays in this volume consider, in detailed case studies, variants of factual dream reports and fic…[Read more]
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Anne Swartz deposited Review, -Agnes Pelton- Desert Transcendentalist- at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis exhibition review examined “Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist,” recently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. This exhibition is a traveling show and this venue was its second installation.
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Alexander J McNair deposited El Cid Campeador between Luzán and Lorca: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Pop-Culture Favorite in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoOnly a small number of fragments, which could be categorized (generously) as “medieval,” actually survive in modern ballad traditions. As it turns out, however, one could in fact hear hundreds of verses about the Cid being recited in the streets of Spanish towns and cities in the nineteenth century. But they were verses that survived pre…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited The Missing ‘Brazilianness’ of Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Art and Architecture in the group
History of Art on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoThis chapter examines a few of the landmark narratives on the issue of national character published between 1880 and 1940. Following the views of Lucio Marcal Ferreira Ribeiro Lima Costa patron, Costa held that it was instead the simple architecture of anonymous master builders that embodied the functional, technical, and aesthetic homogeneity of…[Read more]
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RONALD VINCE deposited Jean de la Taille, The Famine in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoJean de la Taille’s ‘The Famine’ (1573), like the author’s slightly earlier ‘Saul in his Madness’ (1572) is a dramatization of events narrated or mentioned in the biblical Books of Samuel, augmented by excerpts from Josephus’ ‘Antiquities’. This English translation of ‘La Famine’ is based principally on the edition prepared by Kathleen M. Hall…[Read more]
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David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “From Directions to Descriptions: Reading the Theatrical Nebentext in Ben Jonson’s Workes as an Authorial Outlet” (SEDERI 27, 2017), pp. 7–26. in the group
The Renaissance Society of America on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article explores how certain dramatists in early modern England and in Spain, specifically Ben Jonson and Miguel de Cervantes (with much more emphasis on the former), pursued authority over texts by claiming as their own a new realm which had not been available – or, more accurately, as prominently available – to playwrights before: the sta…[Read more]
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David Amelang deposited David J. Amelang, “From Directions to Descriptions: Reading the Theatrical Nebentext in Ben Jonson’s Workes as an Authorial Outlet” (SEDERI 27, 2017), pp. 7–26. in the group
Renaissance / Early Modern Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThis article explores how certain dramatists in early modern England and in Spain, specifically Ben Jonson and Miguel de Cervantes (with much more emphasis on the former), pursued authority over texts by claiming as their own a new realm which had not been available – or, more accurately, as prominently available – to playwrights before: the sta…[Read more]
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