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Books of protection, books of perdition : book imagery in Ephrem the SyrianU+2019s Heresiology Ghent University
“To make book”: a conceptual historical approach to Kongo book cultures (sixteenth– nineteenth centuries) Ghent University
"'Look more closely, said mum: mothers in Anthony Brownes Picture Books University of Antwerp
In this article, Vanessa Joosen explores Anthony Brownes construction of motherhood in four of his picture books that focus on family. She focuses on the use of narratological perspective, visual point of view, and intertextual references to explain how an ideology of motherhood is evoked. While Browne makes use of child narrators and focalizers whose view of their mothers is limited, some of his picture books contain illustrations that further ...
Jean-François Foucquet's contribution to the establishment of Chinese book collections in European libraries: circulation of Chinese books KU Leuven
© Monumenta Serica Institute 2015. This article focuses on the circulation of Chinese books by looking at the books which François Foucquet carried from China to Europe. By examining different “booklists”, it investigates how books circulated not only from one concrete place to another, but also through different “lists”: bookseller lists, transportation lists, cataloguing lists, lists of forgotten books, or quotation lists. In addition, by ...