Academic Interests and Catholic Confessionalisation

The Louvain Privileges of Nomination to Ecclesiastical Benefices
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18417-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 686 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1216 g

Reihe: Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Delving into the tangled involvement of academic institutions with the benefice system in the Early Modern Period, this book focuses on an anomaly: medieval privileges that provided academics at Louvain, the self-declared storm-troopers of Catholic and dynastic restoration in the Netherlands, with access to the Post-Tridentine clerical job market. Despite their anachronistic flavour in a regional job market characterised by its openness for graduates, these privileges were considered vital for the survival of the university and of Catholicism. This conundrum, addressed via the analysis of the privileges and the conflicts they provoked in Louvain colleges, local church administrations, Brussels secretariats and Roman palaces during the archducal period (1588/1598-1621/1625), leads to refreshing explorations of a fabric of Academia in the making and of the multiple worlds of early modern Catholicism.

Zielgruppe

Institutes, academic libraries, religious libraries, students, specialists. Relevant subjects: university history, history and theory, religious and intellectual history, history of the papacy, history of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boute, Bruno

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Prologue

Part One The Weight of the World
1. The Appeal of Logic
2. The Dross of the Earth. Benefices and Academics in the Early Modern Period
3. The Jewels among Academic Privileges

Part Two Assembling Academia
4. Flashbacks: Performance of Academia 1588-98
5. The City of Grace. Academics at the Corte Di Roma 1598-1612
6. The Brabant University. Academics and Reform 1607-17
7. Rondo Veneziano. Academics and the Papal Prince (1612-22)

Epitaph

Conclusions
Bibliography
List of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Boute, Bruno
Bruno Boute, Ph.D. (2003) in History, Catholic University of Louvain, is a researcher at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and at the Catholic University of Louvain. He publishes on religious history, university history and the history of the papacy in the early modern period.