2011/4 Summaries

A.K.L. THIJS Het liedeken vande joffrouw van Brugge en haar catteken: lachen om de sentimentalisering van de omgang met een eigenwillig huisdier Ridiculing too sentimental a relation with pets: the song about a young lady of Bruges and her beautifid but headstrong small cat These days the cultural-historical interest in the man-animal relation hos grown con­siderably. Yet in Flanders this …

2011/3 Summaries

J. TAELS Over humor, levenskunst en tragiek On Humour, Art of Life, and the Tragic In his philosophical approach J. Taels attempts to elucidate two central meanings of humour: humour as the synonym of the comic, and humour as an art of life. In the first section he discusses several central aspects of humour in the broad sense, which relates …

2011/3 Summaries

J. TAELS Over humor, levenskunst en tragiek On Humour, Art of Life, and the Tragic In his philosophical approach J. Taels attempts to elucidate two central meanings of humour: humour as the synonym of the comic, and humour as an art of life. In the first section he discusses several central aspects of humour in the broad sense, which relates …

2011/2 Summaries

    D. CALLEWAERT De subjectieve en collectieve tijdservaring vanuit een volkskundig perspectief The individual and collective experience of time: an ethnological analysis Personifications, attributes, images and expressions render the concept time less abstract. Indications of time are not always mathematical data because in a special context they too often have an emotional value (e.g. nine eleven, 31st of october …

2011/1 Summaries

A.K.L. THIJS Vera Effigies? Vindingrijke omgang met drukvormen: productiekosten reducerende beeldmanipulatie bij bedevaartprenten Vera Ogies? Creative engraving leads to cast reduction as well as to unauthentic imagery at holy pilgrimage sites In the preindustrial era image manipulation enabled publishers to cut production costs by reusing printing blocks, even in a quite different context. They sometimes altered the image a litde …