CONFERENCE: LECTIO XII Conference 2023 - Innovationes Lovanienses (Leuven: KULeuven, 6-8 DEC 2023)

 

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Abstract:

Between 1425 and 1432, Louvain was founded as a rather prototypical medieval studium generale, modeled after similar institutions for higher education in Paris and Cologne, and vested with charters copied from contemporary foundations such as Rostock and Geneva. At this crossroads of Europe, the University of Louvain would soon function as a distinctive nucleus for receiving and transferring ancient and modern ideas and teachings. Until the abolition of the university in 1797, scholars, students, and artists in Louvain innovated and refashioned the results of antique scholarship and schooling, both in teaching and writing, while also engaging in the renewal of the Catholic faith and discipline as a reaction to the Protestant Reformation. In this conference, the Louvain crossroads of ideas, texts, images, and teaching practices will be situated in the European and worldwide 'web of knowledge' by offering transregional as well as global perspectives.

Keynotes:

Susanna Berger University of Southern California - Wouter Druwé KU Leuven - Lidia Lanza University of Lisbon - Jacob Schmutz ​​​​UCLouvain

 Program here, list of abstracts here.