In accordance with its mission to support high level research in Belgium, the University Foundation provides financial support to partially cover the costs of the publication of scientific books which report on research in Belgian research groups.
Because the possible support is restricted to Belgian research groups, the regulations and application procedures are only available in French and in Dutch.
Awards for books subsidized by the University Foundation
Two books which received subsidy for publication from the University Foundation, have received an award. The University Foundation is proud to have contributed to these awards.
The book « À la recherche de l’écologie temporelle. Vivre des temps libérés dans les collectifs néo-paysans autogérés : une analyse anthropologique » (author Madeleine Sallustio) was awarded the First Prize as "livre d'écologie politique". For more information on the award, click here. For more information on the book, click here.
The book "Le jardin anglais. Evolution du goût et passion botanique" (author Nathalie de Harlez) received the Prize Pierre-Joseph Redouté / Histoire 2023, a Prize awarded every year to the best book on gardens. For more information on the award click here. For more information on the book, click here.
What follows is a list of books that were subsidized by the University Foundation since 2013. The titles are ordered by year of publication and by title. An extended list of subsidized books can be found in "Publications archive".
Das Grenzgebiet Eupen-Malmedy kann auf eine bewegte Geschichte zurückblicken. Nach langjähriger Zugehörigkeit zu den Niederlanden, dem Anschluss an das revolutionäre Frankreich und der 105-jährigen preußischen/deutschen Zeit wurde es durch den Versailler Vertrag schließlich dem Königreich Belgien zugesprochen. Aus diesem Blickwinkel werden hier mit Hilfe der komparatistischen Imagologie die deutsch-belgisch-französischen Beziehungen betrachtet. Wie wurde in der Zwischenkriegszeit der Nationalitätenwechsel Eupen-Malmedys wahrgenommen? Wie wurde das Kriegstrauma verarbeitet?
In the preface to La Mort de César (1736), Voltaire claimed to have written a tragedy inspired by Julius Caesar that, while not resembling Shakespeare’s play, was «entirely in the English taste». Such a claim has so far gone virtually unnoticed in scholarly circles, despite its intriguing nature. Furthermore, La Mort de César is commonly referred to as a cornerstone in the European reception of Shakespeare’s drama even though, according to Voltaire, his play was far removed from the barbaric, tasteless and therefore «untranslatable» Julius Caesar.
Souvent jugée sectaire et dogmatique, la production culturelle communiste de l’immédiat après-guerre et de la guerre froide n’a que rarement suscité des analyses approfondies, particulièrement dans le contexte belge qu’interroge ce livre. Proposant pour la première fois une analyse systématique de la critique littéraire dans les journaux communistes de l’époque (1944-1956), Laurence van Nuijs examine la conception de la littérature qui s’y développe au quotidien.
The texts edited in this volume deal with angelology and anthropology, and particularly with the nature and the functions of immaterial substances like angels and the human rational soul. Marchia discusses such controversial issues as universal hylomorphism, i.e., whether angels and the rational soul are composed of both matter and form (q. 13), the immortality of the soul (qq. 18-19), and the nature and the object of the intellect and will (qq. 20, 21), as well as the functionality of the angelic intellect - whether angels understand through discursive reasoning (q.