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Discusses the Asian luxury goods that were imported into the Netherlands during the 17th century and demonstrates the overwhelming impact these works of art had on Dutch life and art during the Golden Age
Wounds were a potent signifier reaching across all aspects of life in Europe in the middle ages, and their representation, perception and treatment is the focus of this volume. Following a survey of the history of medical wound treatment in the middle ages, paired chapters explore key themes situating wounds within the context of religious belief, writing on medicine, status and identity, and surgical practice. The final chapter reviews the history of medieval wounding through the modern imagination. Adopting an innovative approach to the subject, this book will appeal to all those interested in how past societies regarded health, disease and healing and will improve knowledge of not only the practice of medicine in the past, but also of the ethical, religious and cultural dimensions structuring that practice.
Women and Gender in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500-1750 brings together research on women and gender across the Low Countries, a culturally contiguous region that was split by the Eighty Years' War into the Protestant Dutch Republic in the North and the Spanish-controlled, Catholic Hapsburg Netherlands in the South. The authors of this interdisciplinary volume highlight women’s experiences of social class, as family members, before the law, and as authors, artists, and patrons, as well as the workings of gender in art and literature. In studies ranging from microhistories to surveys, the book reveals the Low Countries as a remarkable historical laboratory for its topic and points to the opportunities the region holds for future scholarly investigations. Contributors: Martine van Elk, Martha Howell, Martha Moffitt Peacock, Sarah Joan Moran, Amanda Pipkin, Katlijne Van der Stighelen, Margit Thøfner, and Diane Wolfthal.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents The first book-length study of both images of ordinary household workers and their material culture, Household Servants and Slaves: A Visual History, 1300-1700 covers four hundred years and four continents, facilitating a better understanding of the changes in service that occurred as Europe developed a monetary economy, global trade, and colonialism. Diane Wolfthal presents new interpretations of artists including the Limbourg brothers, Albrecht Dürer, Paolo Veronese, and Diego Velázquez, but also explores numerous long-neglected objects, including independent portra...
"O Leeuwarden, gezegend met zulke grote mannen, hoe lang al bent u voor hen meer een liefhebbende moeder geweest dan een harteloze stiefmoeder", schreef een rector van de Latijnse school in 1633. In de talrijke vroegmoderne stadsgeschiedenissen wordt doorgaans de loftrompet gestoken over het unieke karakter van de eigen stad. Deze bundel belicht verschillende aspecten van de cultuur in Leeuwarden in de Gouden Eeuw. Ze worden vergeleken met culturele ontwikkelingen buiten het gewest Holland. Na een uitvoerige inleiding over de Friese cultuur in de Gouden Eeuw (Wiebe Bergsma) volgen bijdragen over onder meer Leeuwarder geschiedschrijvers over hun stad (Wiebe Bergsma), het dagboek van een adellijke dame (Marlies Stoter), Jan Jansz. Starter en de Friese literatuur (Philippus Breuker), Anna Maria van Schurman (Mirjam de Baar), Leeuwarder schilderkunst (Piet Bakker), Leeuwarder stadsgezichten (Gert Elzinga), Leeuwarder herbergen (Henk Oly) en de rijken in Friesland (Yme Kuiper).
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: software verification; model-driven development and model transformation; software evolution and requirements engineering; specification, design, and implementation of particular classes of systems; and software testing.
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This accessible book describes all aspects of Quality Management in the Organization. The book is full of tips for practical and efficient testing and realization of quality. It is up to the latest 2010 quality standards. It describes all relevant quality standards and methodologies like CMM, CMMI, Prince2, ITIL, ISO9001, CobiT, TQM etc, and of course the Q-Course. The book addresses a lot of organizational aspects with respect to quality. This book can be used for educational purposes. It is currently used at German Universities of Collaborative Education and the Q-Course Foundation exams are approved by the Saxonian State Ministry for Education. Take the Q-Course, improve quality, improve your organization and save a lot of money!!This is the retail version (Amazon etc).
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