Leuven en zijn colleges
€ 29,90
Studenten komen al eeuwenlang uit alle windstreken van de Lage Landen naar de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (gesticht in 1425). Van Artesië in het zuiden tot Friesland in het noorden. Filips Willem, zoon van Willem van Oranje, Marnix van Sint-Aldegonde, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, Erasmus, Dodoens, Vesalius, Mercator, zelfs paus Adrianus van Utrecht, zaten er op de studiebanken. Leuven was hét trefpunt van het intellectuele leven in de Nederlanden. Edward De Maesschalck geeft een verrassend en vernieuwend beeld van een tot nu toe onderbelicht maar belangrijk facet van de universiteitsgeschiedenis: de colleges. Deze werden gesticht door weldoeners die hun bezittingen voorbestemden om tot ver na hun dood te voorzien in de kost en inwoning voor familieleden, streekgenoten of gewoon voor arme studenten. Het was mecenaat avant-la-lettre, een zeldzame kans om de maatschappelijke ladder te beklimmen.
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Cache-sexe
€ 34,90This book asks why humans through history have covered their genitals and worn a cache-sexe. Does the cache-sexe merely provide protection, or is it an instrument to draw attention? Can the cache-sexe be used to stimulate certain thoughts? Why does not wearing a cache-sexe provoke shame one society but not in another? Are nudity and nakedness the same?
On his quest to answer these questions, the author takes the reader on a review of the anatomy of the female and male genitals and reflects on how this part of the human body has been perceived over time and in various cultures. The different types of male and female cache-sex are discussed with reference to comprehensive illustrations based on unique and sometimes previously unpublished examples of cache-sexes and photographic documentation. The book also pays attention to the covering of the ‘backside’. Following this 360° exploration of the use of the cache-sexe, the place of the cache-sexe in art and fashion is uncovered.
Philip Van Kerrebroeck is an urologist and professor emeritus of Urology at the University of Maastricht. Born in Leuven (Belgium), he trained in Surgery and Urology in Brussels, Utrecht, Nijmegen and San Francisco. Over the years, he has also developed an interest in the history of urology and cultural anthropology. He is currently chairman of the History Office of the European Association of Urology (EAU).
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