Catholic Piety from Ruusbroec and the Devotio Moderna to the Legacy of Pierre de Bérulle

2017 ◽  
pp. 576-594
Author(s):  
Rik van Nieuwenhove
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Christian Spirituality ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Devotio Moderna ◽  
Mystical Theology

This chapter examines some of the main figures of Catholic piety from the Low Countries and France from the fourteenth to the early seventeenth centuries. The chapter begins with the mystical theology of Jan van Ruusbroec and then considers some of the figures associated with the Devotio Moderna. Later figures such as Francis de Sales and Pierre de Bérulle are then treated. Overall, the chapter chronicles the transition from a late-medieval exemplarist Christian spirituality to a more experiential variety of mysticism as we encounter it in the Modern Devotion and early-modern French spirituality. The chapter also notes ways in which these traditions were important for the later development of Catholic spirituality.

Human Nature Is the Bride

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Daniel Cere
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Devotio Moderna ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Erotic

Abstract Recent scholarship has accented the impact of evolving forms of bridal mysticism on late medieval popular spiritualities of the Low Countries. Under the laicizing impulses of Devotio Moderna, these narratives were extended as models for the spiritual life of the laity as well as the consecrated religious. A number of Bosch’s key works appear to engage and explore the themes of bridal anthropology, as well as advance perspectives on bridal eschatology. These intersections between the Boschian imagination and the evolving tradition of bridal mysticism shed light on the puzzling play of the religious and the erotic in his work.

scholarly journals Een bouc in walsche, a Book Written in French

Queeste ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 217-245
Author(s):  
Dirk Schoenaers ◽  
Alisa van de Haar
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Francophone Literature ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Soil ◽  
Early Modern Times

Abstract In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social circles, and languages with relative ease. Yet, in the multilingual Low Countries, francophone literature was both internationally mobile and firmly rooted in local soil. The five contributions collected in this volume demonstrate that while in general issues of ‘otherness’ were resolved without difficulty, at other times (linguistic) differences were perceived as a heartfelt reality.

Qualitative Liability in the Early Modern Low Countries (ca. 1425–1650)

Grotiana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-52
Author(s):  
Wouter Druwé
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Hugo Grotius ◽  
Lecture Notes

Abstract In his ‘Inleidinge tot de Hollantsche Rechtsgeleertheyt’, Hugo Grotius introduced the concept of wrong-by-construction-of-law (‘misdaed door wetsduidinge’), the idea that civil law could assign liability to someone who had not committed any fault, i.e. merely because of his or her ‘capacity’ or ‘quality’ as a parent, as an owner of an animal, as an inhabitant of a building, or as an employer or shipowner. This contribution situates Grotius’s views on qualitative liability within the wider Netherlandish learned juridical context of his time, and especially studies the role of fault (‘culpa’) and presumptions of fault in the learned theories on qualitative liability. Apart from printed treatises and volumes of consilia, this contribution also takes into account hitherto unstudied handwritten lecture notes of the late medieval and early modern university of Leuven.

Francophone Literature in the Low Countries (1200-1600)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alisa Haar ◽  
Dirk Schoenaers
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Francophone Literature ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Linguistic Differences ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The People ◽  
Local Soil ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
Early Modern Times

In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social circles, and languages with relative ease. Yet, in the multilingual Low Countries, francophone literature was both internationally mobile and firmly rooted in local soil. The five contributions collected in this volume demonstrate that while in general issues of ‘otherness’ were resolved without difficulty, at other times (linguistic) differences were perceived as a heartfelt reality. Texts and books in French, Latin, and Dutch were as interrelated and mobile as their authors. As awareness of the francophone literature of the medieval and early modern Low Countries continues to grow, texts in all three languages will be ever more strongly connected in an intricate and multilingual weave.

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