The Leuven Collegium Trilingue 1517-1797
Erasmus, Humanist Educational Practice and the New Language Institute Latin-Greek-Hebrew
edited by J. Papy
The Louvain Collegium Trilingue: an appealing story of courageous vision and an unseen international success. Thanks to the legacy of Hieronymus Busleyden, counsellor at the Great Council in Mechelen, Erasmus launched the foundation of a new college where international experts would teach Latin, Greek and Hebrew for free, and where bursaries would live together with their professors. The foundation at the Louvain Fish Market, however, met with strong opposition in a dramatic period of political and religious tensions. At the same time, it conquered the whole of Europe alike. Hundreds of students from various countries travelled to the Three-Language College, renowned professors worked and taught there until the institute was closed down during the French Revolution. In this book the secret ‘Erasmian’ recipe used in this humanist language education is analyzed and contextualized by specialists in the field. Moreover, it appears that these new didactics in language and literature also initiated an inspiring new scientific method.
- Edited by J Papy
"Jan Papy of KU Leuven has compiled a book of seven chapters, replete with illustrations of treasures preserved in special collections in Belgium and entertaining anecdotes from the 280 years of the Leuven Collegium Trilingue's life and beyond. It also contains new historical and theological contributions from several specialists in the contemporary Catholic University of Leuven, and meaningful didactic advice for the study of (modern, classical, ancient and 'holy') language. . . .This volume will be appreciated not only by medieval and early modern scholars interested in languages and linguistics, Erasmus, or the history of language institutions, but also by the contemporary teacher and student of languages for its numerous prescriptions for educational practice, and even more broadly, by readers who are seeking to learn of the history and culture of the city of Leuven." --Andrea Hugill, University of Saint Paul in the University of Ottawa, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2019.07.41
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