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The Art of Law
The contributions to this volume were written by historians, legal historians and art historians, each using his or her own methods and sources, but all concentrating on topics from the broad subject of historical legal iconography. How have the concepts of law and justice been represented in (public) art from the Late Middle Ages onwards? Justices and rulers had their courtrooms, but also churches, decorated with inspiring images. At first, the religious influence was enormous, but starting with the Early Modern Era, new symbols and allegories began appearing. Throughout history, art has been used to legitimise the act of judging, but artists have also satirised the law and the lawyers; architects and artisans have engaged in juridical and judicial projects and, in some criminal cases, convicts have even been sentenced to produce works of art. The book illustrates and contextualises the various interactions between law and justice on the one hand, and their artistic representations in paintings, statues, drawings, tapestries, prints and books on the other.
A Critical History of Contemporary Architecture
1960, following as it did the last CIAM meeting, signalled a turning point for the Modern Movement. From then on, architecture was influenced by seminal texts by Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi, and gave rise to the first revisionary movement following Modernism. Bringing together leading experts in the field, this book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the developments in architecture from 1960 to 2010. It consists of two parts: the first section providing a presentation of major movements in architecture after 1960, and the second, a geographic survey that covers a wide range of territories around the world. This book not only reflects the different perspectives of its various authors, but also charts a middle course between the 'aesthetic' histories that examine architecture solely in terms of its formal aspects, and the more 'ideological' histories that subject it to a critique that often skirts the discussion of its formal aspects.
Living in Brussels
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"The present publication includes the work done by the MEAM Net research group at the Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with 27 institutions Europe-wide. This work, titled "One hundred houses for one hundred European architects of the 20th century", bore fruit in a travelling exhibition and a website"
Corpses in Belgian Anatomy, 1860–1914
This book tells the story of the thousands of corpses that ended up in the hands of anatomists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Composed as a travel story from the point of view of the cadaver, this study offers a full-blown cultural history of death and dissection, with insights that easily go beyond the history of anatomy and the specific case of Belgium. From acquisition to disposal, the trajectories of the corpse changed under the influence of social policies, ideological tensions, religious sensitivities, cultures of death and broader changes in the field of medical ethics. Anatomists increasingly had to reconcile their ways with the diverse meanings that the dead body held. To a certain extent, as this book argues, they started to treat the corpse as subject rather than object. Interweaving broad historical evolutions with detailed case studies, this book offers unique insights into a field dominated by Anglo-American perspectives, evaluating the similarities and differences within other European contexts.
The Road Way
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De Oorlogsorde der Geneesheren 1941-1944
Na de inval van de Duitse legers in mei 1940 legde het militair bestuur aan de Belgische artsen een reorganisatie van hun beroepsverenigingen op met vorming van één enkele organisatie. De bestaande twee grote verenigingen gingen hierop in maar al spoedig kwamen de communautaire geschillen die hen tijdens het interbellum hadden verdeeld, aan de oppervlakte. Dit leidde tot een felle tweestrijd en de oprichting van de Oorlogsorde, waaraan vooral flamingantische artsen meewerkten. Ze werden wel gesteund door een aantal Waalse artsen. De Oorlogsorde werd van nabij gecontroleerd door het Duitse militaire bestuur en door het Belgische ministerie dat geleid werd door een secretaris-generaal. Na ha...
Lichaamskwalen en hun verzorging
Op medisch-historisch vlak is de periode tussen Karel de Grote (768) en het einde van de eerste kruistocht (1099) vaak onderbelicht. Dit werk verhelpt hieraan. De ruim 330 jaar van dit onderzoek zijn in twee verdeeld: de bloeitijd van de Karolingers (768-879) en de twee eerste eeuwen van hun afstammelingen, met name de Vlaamse graven (880-1099). In twee derden van de gekende aandoeningen van de Karolingische vorsten, laten de bronnen toe een ziektediagnose te stellen of te benaderen. Karel de Grote en zijn opvolgers gaven aan de geestelijkheid de opdracht de ziekenzorg te organiseren. De bronnen lichten ons behoorlijk in over de zorg van de zieke geestelijken, maar veel minder over die van d...
The Figure of Knowledge
It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism. Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of knowledge has become important in the recent history of architectural theory and how the resulting figure of knowledge sets the conditions for the actual arguments made. The contributions in this volume focus on institutional, geographical, rhetorical, and other conditioning factors. They thus screen the unspoken rules of engagement that postwar architectural theory ascribed to.
Rembert Dodoens
Rembert Dodoens (Mechelen, 1517/18 – Leiden, 1585) is erg belangrijk figuur in de wetenschapsgeschiedenis van de Nederlanden. Hij wordt vooral geassocieerd met de botanica en zijn legendarische ‘Cruijdeboeck’. Hieraan besteedt deze publicatie de nodige aandacht, maar ze wil ook verder kijken. Zo staat ze ook stil bij de inbreng van Dodoens op het medische domein. Vele van de door hem beschreven kruiden werden immers geïmplementeerd in de medische wetenschap en sommige beschreven exotische en endemische kruiden en plantenextracten worden vandaag nog altijd gebruikt. Er is meteen ook een duidelijke link naar de farmaceutische wetenschappen. Reeds in de zestiende eeuw werden de inzichten van Dodoens toegepast bij de vervaardiging van verscheidene doelgerichte en baanbrekende geneesmiddelen. Dit innovatieve boek werpt een heldere blik op de ontelbare verwezenlijkingen van deze wereldbefaamde Mechelse wetenschapper. De wetenschappelijke erfenis van Dodoens kan nauwelijks overschat worden.
