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Historical Tragedy and the End of Christian Humanism: Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649)
chapter 5 Historical Tragedy and the End of Christian Humanism: Nicolaus Vernulaeus (1583–1649) James A. Parente, Jr. In 1656 the highly esteemed rector magnificus of the University of Louvain, Franciscus de Baillencourt, who was serving his fourth term in that office, was feted by his colleagues in anticipation of his departure for his new position as consiliarius of the Council of Mechelen. Baillencourt had spent his entire academic life at Louvain, from his student years in the 1620s and professor- ship in civil and canon law to his thirteen-year service as praeses of the Col- legium Winckelianum (Wenkelem). As befitted such a long-standing colleague, he was presented with several gifts marking his career transition. Among the many tokens of appreciation that he received was a two-volume edition of the fourteen tragedies of the late Louvain professor of rhetoric and imperial Habsburg historiographer Nicolaus Vernulaeus, which was presented to him by the local printers Petrus Sassenus and Hieronymus Nempaeus. The print- ers deemed this gift especially appropriate, for Vernulaeus had also served as the university’s rector, written its first history, and contributed greatly, as Bail- lencourt had done, to maintaining the distinguished academic reputation of the university for educating the Catholic nobility of Europe. But this partic- ular gift suggested an even closer tie between the two rectors. Vernulaeus’s plays were much more than the usual academic dramas that were produced in Catholic Europe by teachers of rhetoric to strengthen the faith of their stu- dents. In contrast to the largely biblical and hagiographic subjects favored by late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century school dramatists, Vernulaeus’s writing was deeply grounded in history, especially medieval and contemporary history, and in the Catholic conception of the state and the ideal Christianus politicus. -
The Right of Spoil of the Popes of Avignon, 1316 –1415
THE AMES FOUNDATION FOUNDED IN 1910 BY CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE FRIENDS OF JAMES BARR AMES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUING THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEGAL KNOWLEDGE AND AIDING THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE LAW PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMES FOUNDATION (The more recent print publications of the Ames Foundation follow. All the print publications of the Foundation are available, and it has a number of publications online. A complete list can be found at http://amesfoundation.law.harvard.edu/.) VOLUMES PUBLISHED UNDER THE GENERAL EDITORSHIP OF SAMUEL E. THORNE. 1989. YEAR BOOKS OF RICHARD 11: 7 RICHARD II. Edited by Maurice J. Holland, Dean of the Oregon University School of Law. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Ames Foundation, Harvard Law School.) VOLUMES PUBLISHED UNDER THE LITERARY DIRECTORSHIP OF CHARLES DONAHUE, JR. 1996. YEAR BOOKS OF RICHARD II: 6 RICHARD II. Edited by the late Samuel E. Thorne, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Legal History Emeritus in Harvard University, in collaboration with Michael E. Hager, of the Massachusetts Bar, and Margaret MacVeagh Thorne, of the American School of Classical Studies (Athens), with a Commentary upon the Cases by Charles Donahue, Jr., Paul A. Freund Professor of Law in Harvard Uni- versity. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Ames Foundation, Harvard Law School.) 1998. LEX MERCATORIA AND LEGAL PLURALISM: A LATE THIRTEENTH- CENTURY TREATISE AND ITS AFTERLIFE. Edited by Mary Elizabeth Basile, of the Massachusetts Bar; Jane Fair Bestor, Research Associate in Brandeis University; Daniel R. Coquillette, J. Donald Monan University Professor in Boston College, and Charles Donahue, Jr., Paul A. Freund Professor of Law in Harvard University. (Cambridge, Mass.: The Ames Foundation, Harvard Law School.) 2011. -
The Gothic Saints and Their Mystical Songs: Performing Sanctity in the Thirteenth-Century Diocese of Liège
The Gothic Saints and Their Mystical Songs: Performing Sanctity in the Thirteenth-Century Diocese of Liège A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BY Luo Wang IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Advisor: Ruth Mazo Karras May 2018 © Luo Wang 2018 i Acknowledgements This dissertation has been a long time in the making. It would not have been completed, perhaps even started, without the intellectual and spiritual support of my advisor, Professor Ruth Mazo Karras. I will keep to myself the memories of those instances when she salvaged my career, to prevent myself from getting too sentimental here. It is a pleasure, but more of a relief, to finally have the chance to thank my committee members, Professors Gabriela Currie, Kathryn Reyerson, J.B. Shank, and Andrea Sterk. I am also grateful to Professors Bernard Bachrach and Michael Lower for their support in my first two years of graduate school. I felt warmth and enthusiasm every time I came across Professor Barbara Welke and Professor Hiromi Mizuno, to whom I would like to express my gratitude. I am also greatly indebted to other teachers at the University of Minnesota whom I took graduate courses with or worked as teaching assistant for. I thank Professor Emeritus David Good and his wife Rosemary for a graduate scholarship. Loud and cheerful thanks to Andrea Sterk and Howard Louthan, to whom I owed an editorial job, many dinner parties, and almost my entire social life in the last year of graduate school. Professor Peng Xiaoyu at Peking University has been an advisor and fatherly figure to me for many years, whose influence upon my career and life is, well, too soon to tell.