Academic Interests and Catholic Confessionalisation

Bruno Boute, Ph.D. (2003) in History, Catholic University of Louvain, is a researcher at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and at the Catholic University of Louvain. He publishes on religious history, university history and the history of the papacy in the early modern period.

"...Boute has clearly sought to compose a wide-ranging, multifaceted account that allows readers to delve into the world of a major sixteenth-century university. Clearly, this book is a gold mine for Louvain scholarship."Geert H. Janssen, Corpus Christi College, Sixteenth Century Journal, XLIII/2 (2012)"...Das Buch erreicht sein Ziel, durch eine konsequente Mikrohistorie von unten feste Vorstellungen von Akademikern und Jesuiten, von der päpstlichen Bürokratie und der tridentinischen Reform, vom Staat und der Macht und dergleichen zu verflüssigen und den einheitlichen Prozess der Konfessionalisierung in ein buntes Feld ungleicher Akteure zu verwandeln..."Wolfgang Reinhard, Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 91 (2011), pp. 542-543."...What at first glance seems a tedious game of academic politics turns out to be a fascinating tale of how power and influence functioned in the early modern period: through multiple layers of personal networks, mediated through different institutions, influenced by political, theological, and social considerations..."Ronnie Po-chia Hsia, Pennsylvania State University, Studium, Vol. 4, no. 1 (2011)"..This study is most useful for those scholars who will appreciate Boute’s attention to detail, especially as it relates to the histories of universities, of early modern Catholicism, and of the myriad connections between them..."Adina M. Yoffie, New York University, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 641-642.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsProloguePart One The Weight of the World1. The Appeal of Logic2. The Dross of the Earth. Benefices and Academics in the Early Modern Period3. The Jewels among Academic PrivilegesPart Two Assembling Academia4. Flashbacks: Performance of Academia 1588-985. The City of Grace. Academics at the Corte Di Roma 1598-16126. The Brabant University. Academics and Reform 1607-177. Rondo Veneziano. Academics and the Papal Prince (1612-22)EpitaphConclusionsBibliographyList of Names