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Battles and Borders
Battles and Borders. Perspectives on Cultural Transmission and Literature in Minor Language Areas is about literature on the fringes of Europe. The authors all discuss the often unique ways in which literary history and cultural transfer function in peripheral and central regions against the background of shifting national borders in the last two centuries. Special attention is paid to minority and migrant groups in Northwest Europe. The present volume aims to prompt a reconsideration of the concepts of minority' and migrant' cultures and literatures in the past and the present day. It also suggests a new topic for further study: the importance of cultural transfer for migrant groups (whether or not they form a diaspora) and their ability to create new words and to develop new identities.
David Gorlaeus (1591-1612)
When David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences...
Jacob Leisler's Atlantic World in the Later Seventeenth Century
Jacob Leisler emigrated to the Dutch colony of Nieu Nederlandt in North America in 1660. He was the son of a Reformed minister and hailed from Frankfurt on the Main. To posterity Jacob Leisler is known for his role during the Glorious Revolution in 1689 as rebel against the English governor of the colony of New York - for which he was cruelly put to death in 1691. The essays in this collection show that Leisler's world had many more faces and sides: there is the military aspect of Leisler's career, the mercantile world in which Leisler lived (and was captured by Algerian pirates), the religious world that got him into a fierce fight with a Dutch-Reformed pastor, and finally the larger ideolo...
The Oera Linda Book
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Leugenaars en vervalsers
Wat hebben Albert Einstein, Karel Appel, Boudewijn Büch, Cicero, Jules Croiset, Ptolemeus, René Diekstra, Ernest Hemingway, François Mitterrand en Marco Polo allemaal met elkaar gemeen? Ze staan in Leugenaars en vervalsers van Roelf Bolt. Leugenaars en vervalsers omringen ons. En dan hebben we het niet alleen over valsemunters, sjoemelende kunsthandelaren en overspeligen: in bijna vijfhonderd lemmas behandelt deze `encyclopedie allerhande sterfgevallen, vorstelijke aanspraken, eieren, kinderscharen, wetenschappelijke vondsten, bonbons, boeken, zebras, sekse want het is zo gek niet te bedenken of het wordt vervalst. Eigenbelang is vaak een motivatie, maar ook ideologie, rancune, liefde en haat of een goed gevoel voor humor. Naast onbekenden die enkel door bedrog voor het voetlicht traden, bevat het boek een groot aantal beroemde personen. Een vrolijkmakend boek voor bedriegers en bedrogenen.
De gemaskerde God
Studie over een zogenaamd Oud-Fries handschrift uit 1867 en zijn vermoedelijke auteurs.
Het Oera Linda-boek
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Vielfältiges Christentum
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes gehen auf eine Tübinger Ringvorlesung im Wintersemester 2012/13 zurück. Im Dreischritt von dogmatischer, kulturhistorischer und ökumenischer Perspektive fragen die einzelnen Studien nach den Formierungsbedingungen der heute für Europa typischen Gestalt des Christentums: als Miteinander mehrerer Konfessionen. In der Öffentlichkeit gelegentlich begegnende einfache Alternativen – "historisch" versus "dogmatisch", "protestantisch-selbstbewusst" versus "ökumenisch offen" – sollen so unterlaufen werden. So zeichnet der Band die Genese der Vielfalt ebenso nach wie gegenwärtige Ansätze zu ihrer Überwindung beziehungsweise zum Umgang mit ihr nach. Wer auf dem ...
