The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Volume V: From Petrarch to Michelangelo.
In this fifth volume, the author writes about the re-evaluation of the ancient world: this set in motion a quest for the surviving works of ancient Greek and Latin literature, most of which were to be found in monastic libraries. He discusses the new schools and scholarly circles that were formed to... More info
Women in revolutionary debate. Female novelists from Burney to Austen.
In the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries novels were believed to have the power to shape and/or change behaviour, and, by implication, affect the political landscape of society on a large scale. The English response to the French Revolution can be traced through a reading of the nove... More info
Keukenhof: van Keukenduin tot Lentetuin. De wordingsgeschiedenis van Internationale Bloemententoonstelling Keu...
In 1949 one of the icons of the Dutch identity was founded in the western part of Holland: Keukenhof, nowadays known as the most beautiful springgarden in the world, famous worldwide for its beautiful landscaping with bulbflowers as its main focus. This book describes the long and interesting histo... More info
Early Photographs of Mecca
Introduction A facsimile-edition of the 40 magnificent photographs, originally published in 1889 in the Bilder Atlas to the classic 2-volume work on Mecca by the world famous Dutch orientalist and islamologist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, together with the 20 photographs of the addition... More info
Practice Makes Perfect P. Cotsen-Princeton 1 and the Training of Scribes in Byzantine Egypt
This book by papyrologist Scott Bucking is about a 7th century Sahidic Coptic manuscript including a syllabary and simple text indicating its use for elementary instruction in a monastery. The text provides a papyrological description of the manuscript, with a text describing its historical and soci... More info
The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Volume IV: The Medieval World in the West. From Cassiodoru...
Co-publication. Sales Rights: worldwide except USA. Available in the USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 9781584561811). This work is the fourth part in an important, five-volume series addressing the unique role libraries have played in building and preserving Western culture. Mr. Staikos has become one... More info
Western Travellers in China. Discovering the Middle Kingdom.
This book accompanied the exhibition "Western Travellers in China" held at the Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels, 28 October 2009-10 January 2010. For centuries, China has aroused considerable interest in the Western world. In this book a selection of 130 volumes from a large collection of trave... More info
Ruling the Waves. Emperor Maximilian I, the Search for Islands and the Transformation of the European Wolrd Pi...
In this work Kleinschmidt is tracing the political implications of the transformation of the European world picture in the age of Emperor Maximilian I. More info
De nazaten van Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter
Comprehensive genealogy of the descendants of the famous Dutch admiral Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (1607-1676). More info