Academic interests and Catholic confessionalisation : : the Louvain privileges of nomination to ecclesiastical benefices / / by Bruno Boute.

• Superior document: Education and society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance ; v. 35
• Author: Boute, Bruno.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill.; c2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 35.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (713 p.)
• Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Louvain.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / B. Boute -- Chapter One. The Appeal Of Logic / B. Boute -- Chapter Two. The Dross Of The Earth. Benefices And Academics In The Early Modern Period / B. Boute -- Chapter Three. The Jewels Among Academic Privileges. The Louvain Privileges Of Nomination To Ecclesiastical Benefices / B. Boute -- Chapter Four. Flashbacks: Performances Of Academia 1588–98 / B. Boute -- Chapter Five. The City Of Grace. Academics At The Corte Di Roma 1598–1612 / B. Boute -- Chapter Six. The Brabant University. Academics And Reform 1607–17 / B. Boute -- Chapter Seven. Rondo Veneziano. Academics And The Papal Prince (1612–22) / B. Boute -- Epitaph / B. Boute -- Conclusions / B. Boute -- Bibliography / B. Boute -- List Of Names / B. Boute.