The Quintessence of Lives
Intellectual Biographies in the Low Countries presented to Jan Roegiers
Edited by Pierre Delsaerdt Edited by Hedwig Schwall Edited by Dries Vanysacker Edited by Jean-Pierre Delville
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 volumeThe 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. The book will be published in the series Bibliotheque de la Revue d’histoire ecclesiastique, in recognition of the important part Jan Roegiers has played these many years as director of this international academic journal, which has recently started a formal cooperation with Brepols Publishers. The contributions, mainly in English and French, but also in German and Dutch are written by Erik Aerts, Bruno Boute, Rob Brusten and friends, Luc Courtois, Pierre Delsaerdt, Jean-Pierre Delville, Wim Francois, Willem Frijhoff, Lieve Gevers, Craig Harline, Guido Hendrix, Marion Huibrechts, Staf Janssens, Eddy Louchez, Jeroen Nilis, Ernest Persoons, Eddy Put, Toon Quaghebeur, Ludo Simons, Violet Soen, Gilbert Tournoy, Michel van Meerbeeck, Dries Vanysacker, Johan Verberckmoes, Tom Verschaffel, Dries Welkenhuyzen, and Kaat Wils.
- Edited by Pierre Delsaerdt
- Edited by Hedwig Schwall
- Edited by Dries Vanysacker
- Edited by Jean-Pierre Delville
Other Titles in this Series
Taize, une parabole d’unite
Histoire de la communaute des origines au concile de jeunes [trad. francaise de l'italien Storia della comunita dalle origini al concilio dei giovani]
Volume 108
Un age d’or des chapitres nobles de chanoinesses en Europe au XVIIIe siecle
Le cas de la Franche-Comte
Volume 109
Les jesuites francais dans la tourmente (1949-1951)
Rapports Dhanis, affaire de Fourviere et encyclique Humani generis
Volume 117
Verso l’ Ut Omnes – Towards Ut Omnes
Vie, luoghi e protagonisti dell'ecumenismo cattolico prima del Vaticano II - Ways, places and protagonists of Catholic ecumenism before Vatican II
Volume 110
Les martyrs oublies?
Les missionnaires dans la tempete de la rebellion des Simbas au Congo en 1964-1966
Volume 100
Histoire litteraire des benedictins de Saint-Maur
Tome Cinquieme : Abbayes - Index Nominum
Volume 103
Science, philosophie et theologie chez Edouard Le Roy
La controverse autour de Qu'est-ce qu'un dogme ? (1905-1907)
Volume 97
Vatican I, Infallible or Neglectable?
Historical and Theological Approaches to the Event and Reception of the First Vatican Council
Volume 113
A Cathedral of Constitutional Law
Essays on the Earliest Constitutions of the Order of Preachers, with an English Translation of Fr Antoninus H. Thomas's 1965 Study
Volume 112
La theologie catholique entre intransigeance et renouveau
La reception des mouvements preconciliaires a Vatican II
Volume 95
Hoghe minne es deen vor dander
Essays on the Christian Mystical Tradition in Honour of Rob Faesen SJ
Volume 122
De canonicis qui seculares dicuntur
Treize siecles de chapitres seculiers dans les anciens Pays-Bas. Thirteen Centuries of Chapters of Secular Canons in the Low Countries
Volume 105
Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova
Studies in History of Christianity in Honour of Mathijs Lamberigts / Etudes d'histoire du christianisme en l'honneur de M. Lamberigts
Volume 107
Produire et publier de la theologie dans le monde catholique
Des Restaurations a Vatican II
Volume 118
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