Author: Jules PersynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flemish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
A Glance at the Soul of the Low Countries
Author: Jules PersynPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flemish literature
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Late Medieval Mysticism of the Low Countries
Author: Rik Van NieuwenhovePublisher: Paulist Press
ISBN: 9780809105694
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
"When one looks at an icon, one bas the sense that God is looking back. Our whole person is involved. What the prayers and music of the Feast convey through the ears, the icon conveys visually." This book showcases a collection of extraordinarily beautiful icons that introduces readers and art appreciators to the spiritual riches of the Byzantine liturgical tradition. The author, Father Michael Evdokimov, presents an icon for each of the twelve great feasts of the Orthodox Christian liturgical year. Preceding each icon is a brief commentary of what the reader can hope to find in the icon, including nuances that a casual observer might miss. Facing each icon are prayers appropriate for meditating on the icon. Quotations from spiritual writers of all ages of Christianity are interspersed in the book. In a simple, straightforward manner, Evdokimov shows how the prayers and the icons used to worship God can nourish the spiritual life. Although he sets before his readers beliefs and practices common to Orthodox people everywhere in the world, anyone who appreciates beautiful art will find much to savor here.
The Flemish Movement
Author: Theo HermansPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474241441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This documentary history of the Flemish movement and its role as a social, intellectual and political force in Belgium recounts the struggle for the recognition of the language and cultural identity of the Dutch-speaking inhabitants of Belgium.
The Athenaeum
Author: The Language Question in Belgium
Author: Alphonse van de PerrePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Nederlandsch Letterkundig Nieuwsblad
Author: Belgian Letters
Author: Marnix GijsenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875
Author: Lia van GemertPublisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089641297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
This book provides a welcome English translation of a marvelous anthology of women's religious and secular writing, stretching from the visions of the late medieval mystics through the prison testaments of sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs to the pamphleteers and novelists of the growing urban bourgeoisie. The translations and introductions demonstrate the ways that women in the Low Countries shaped the intellectual and cultural developments of their eras.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Author: Jane FenoulhetPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.