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Sexuality in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times
Sexuality is one of the most influential factors in human life. The responses to and reflections upon the manifestations of sexuality provide fascinating insights into fundamental aspects of medieval and early-modern culture. This interdisciplinary volume with articles written by social historians, literary historians, musicologists, art historians, and historians of religion and mental-ity demonstrates how fruitful collaborative efforts can be in the exploration of essential features of human society. Practically every aspect of culture both in the Middle Ages and the early modern age was influenced and determined by sexuality, which hardly ever surfaces simply characterized by prurient interests. The treatment of sexuality in literature, chronicles, music, art, legal documents, and in scientific texts illuminates central concerns, anxieties, tensions, needs, fears, and problems in human society throughout times.
Magritte au risque de la sémiotique
Ce volume constitue les actes d'un colloque international qui a eu lieu aux Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis à Bruxelles, les 22 et 23 mai 1998 en l'honneur du centenaire de la naissance de René Magritte. A cette occasion, différentes théories sémiotiques ont été confrontées, celles qui se présentent explicitement comme telles (la sémiotique peircienne, la sémiotique cognitive), et d'autres qui, sans porter le nom de “ sémiotique ”, partagent le même objectif, celui de comprendre comment fonctionne la signification (la rhétorique, et certaines études littéraires qui mettent l'accent sur le rapprochement entre la peinture et l'expression poétique). Une rencontre a ét...
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Historism and Cultural Identity in the Rhine-Meuse Region
KADOC Artes 10Based on the cultural insight that "historism"--understood as the projection of the past into the present by artistic means, or the "invention of tradition"--always occurs in close connection with the emergence of nation-states, this volume describes for the first time the cultural and denominational character and development of the Maas-Rhine region during the period between the French Revolution and World War I. Seventeen contributors shed light on the cultural identity of this Catholic-dominated core region of Europe.
