The quintessence of lives
Subtitle: intellectual biographies in the Low Countries presented to Jan Roegiers
By: edited by Dries Vanysacker ... [et al.].
Contributors: Roegiers, Jan
Series: Bibliothèque de la Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique -- 91; Bibliothèque de la Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique -- 91.
Publisher: Brepols; Collège Érasme; Universiteitsbibliotheek; Brepols (distributed); Brepols Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium; Louvain-la-Neuve; Leuven
Language: eng; mul; fre; ger; dut
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9782503532103
Subjects: Intellectual life; Biography
Description: "More than twenty-five historians have written intellectual biographies of figures who created a 'second life' for themselves on paper. All persons discussed are firmly rooted in the intellectual life of the Low Countries and were active there between the sixteenth and the twentieth century. The volume is offered on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Dr. Jan Roegiers as full professor at the K.U. Leuven. . .  .The contributions, mainly in English and French, but also in German and Dutch are written by Erik Aerts, Bruno Boute, Rob Brusten and friends, Luc Courtois, Pierre Delsaerdt, Jean-Pierre Delville, Wim Francois, Willem Frijhoff, Lieve Gevers, Craig Harline, Guido Hendrix, Marion Huibrechts, Staf Janssens, Eddy Louchez, Jeroen Nilis, Ernest Persoons, Eddy Put, Toon Quaghebeur, Ludo Simons, Violet Soen, Gilbert Tournoy, Michel van Meerbeeck, Dries Vanysacker, Johan Verberckmoes, Tom Verschaffel, Dries Welkenhuyzen, and Kaat Wils." p. 4 of cover.
Notes: "Bibliography of Jan Roegiers": p. [xxii]-xxxvii.

English, French, German and Dutch.