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Huldealbum Jan Roegiers: The Quintessence of Lives

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Einde september jl. ging de Leuvense hoogleraar Jan Roegiers met emeritaat. Bij die gelegenheid wordt hem op 19 februari 2010 een bundel essays aangeboden met biografieën van intellectuelen uit de Nederlanden, hoofdzakelijk (maar niet uitsluitend) in de Nieuwe Tijd. Het boek draagt de titel: The Quintessence of Lives: Intellectual Biographies in the Low Countries presented to Jan Roegiers. Edited by D. Vanysacker, P. Delsaerdt, J.-P Delville and H. Schwall. De bundel wordt door Brepols Publishers uitgegeven in de reeks Bibliothèque de la Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique. U kan op deze site ook de digitale folder (PDF, 140Kb) met het bestelformulier downloaden. Klik hieronder op 'Lees verder' om de promotietekst en de inhoudstafel te lezen.

What is the essence of a life? Which elements merit selection by a biographer? Which should be discreetly left out? To what extent can an intellectual’s thoughts and actions be captured in schemes and structures, without distorting or reducing the richness of a multifarious personality? These are the questions which underlie the contributions to the volume The Quintessence of Lives: Intellectual Biographies in the Low Countries presented to Jan Roegiers. More than twenty-five historians have written intellectual biographies of figures who created a ‘second life’ for themselves on paper. All persons discussed are firmly rooted in the intellectual life of the Low Countries and were active there between the sixteenth and the twentieth century. The volume is offered on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Dr. Jan Roegiers as full professor at the K.U.Leuven.

As head librarian and archivist, also in charge of the university’s art collections, Jan Roegiers played a pivotal role in collecting, preserving and making available the documentary and artistic inheritance of the University of Leuven. His main interest is in the intellectual and ecclesiastical history of the Low Countries in the Modern period, but his curiosity also made him venture far beyond the boundaries of the research group in which he was active as professor ordinarius. Whatever the topic, all his texts show how much he valued the craftmanship of historiography, his great consideration for the wider context which codetermines the acts and writings of committed intellectuals, and his relish for erudition. These same features are variously reflected in the biographical contributions in this volume. They illustrate how social and cultural trends in the surrounding environment affect the actual course of action chosen by individuals who helped shape the intellectual life of our region. Academically trained lay people and clerics, as well as academics from many disciplines are to be encountered here. The authors look at how they react to the Zeitgeist, how they often go against the current and leave their mark on a whole era; or how individuals who enjoyed the same
education eventually go opposite ways and proclaim conflicting views.

Inhoud:

  • 'As we remember it'. A mostly factual biography of Jan Roegiers with some incorporated impertinentia (Rob brusten and friends)
  • Bibliography Jan Roegiers (Jeroen Nilis)
  • Introduction (Pierre Delsaerdt, Jean-Pierre Delville, Hedwig Schwall and Dries Vanysacker)
  • Andreas Masius (1514-73). Löwener Alumnus, Gelehrter der syrischen Studien und biblischer Humanist (Wim François)
  • Joachim Hopperus en Willem van Oranje, 1566-1576 (Gustaaf Janssens)
  • The Loyal Opposition of Jean Vendeville (1527-1592): Contributions to a contextualized biography (Violet Soen)
  • Un point de vue de juriste, de théologien ou plutôt de jésuite au service de la Contre Réforme? L'attitude de Martín Antonio Delrío (1551-1608) et Joannes David (1546-1613) envers la sorcellerie et le mal parmi nous (Dries Vanysacker)
  • Saint, Scholar, Exorcist? About Jacobus Jansonius, Professor at Louvain (1547-1625) (Bruno Boute)
  • The Scholar at Home: Domestic Crisis and the New Dutch Bible (Craig Harline)
  • À la recherche de la bibliothèque du juriste liégeois Gerardus Corselius (1568-1636), professeur à l'Université de Louvain (Gilbert Tournoy)
  • Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (1600-1659) and the politics of God's grace (Johan Verberckmoes)
  • Betrekkingen van de kapucijn Antonius-Maria van Reita met de Nederlanden (Ernest Persoons)
  • "Dien Pater Capucyn, die hier van Wenen gekomen is". Reita en de kring rond Puteanus, 1642-1645 (Andries Welkenhuysen)
  • Johannes Lomejer (1636-1699), un historien du livre en route vers l'histoire culturelle (Willem Frijhoff)
  • An Italian in the Metropolis: The Amsterdam career of Francesco Feroni (ca.1640-1672) (Hans Cools)
  • Damen, an anti-Jansenist in the service of the archbishops of Mechlin 1690-1730 (Toon Quaghebeur)
  • De Louvain à Senez en Provence: l'ordination sacerdotale d'un futur archevêque (Michel Van Meerbeeck)
  • Mal du siècle d'archives? Jacques Wellens et le classement des archives de l'université de Louvain en 1757-1766 (Eddy Put)
  • Pierre Lambinet (1742-1813) et les débuts de l'histoire du livre en Belgique (Pierre Delsaerdt)
  • "Ab imperatore Josepho secundo in Americam missus erut". Franz Josef Märter in America (Marion Huibrechts)
  • Aangepast aan alle tijden: Louis Dieudonné Joseph Dewez (1760-1838) (Tom Verschaffel)
  • Les livres du recteur P.F.X. De Ram à la bibliothèque de l'abbaye des trappistes à Westmalle (Guido Hendrix)
  • "Would the real Lion of Flanders please stand up?". Hendrik Conscience and Robert of Béthune (Erik Aerts)
  • "Kein Rheinländer sondern ein Lause Belgier". Franz von Wolffers, alias François (de) Wolffers (Ludo Simons)
  • La congrégation des Oblats de Marie Immaculée et les universités (Eddy Louchez)
  • Un parfum de sainteté laïque. Hector Denis, political economy and sociology in the late 19th century Belgium (Kaat Wils)
  • Un intellectuel au coeur de la question sociale: Mgr Antoine Pottier à Rome de 1905 à 1908 (Jean-Pierre Delville)
  • "One Day the World will be what we want it to be". Albrecht Rodenbach and the Flemish Catholic Student Movement (Lieve Gevers)
  • Aux origines de la crise moderniste en Belgique: Une dénonciation anonyme de l'exégète Paulin Ladeuze (février 1903) (Luc Courtois)
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