Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Prologue; Part One The Weight of the World; Chapter One The Appeal of Logic; Chapter Two The Dross of the Earth. Benefices and Academics in the Early Modern Period; Chapter Three The Jewels among Academic Privileges. The Louvain Privileges of Nomination to Ecclesiastical Benefices; Part Two Assembling Academia; Chapter Four Flashbacks: Performances of Academia 1588-98; Chapter Five The City of Grace. Academics at the Corte Di Roma 1598-1612; Chapter Six The Brabant University. Academics and Reform 1607-17
Summary
Focussing on an anomaly - highly controverisal, but at face value useless privileges granted to the university of Louvain -, this book explores the entanglement of material, political, religious and intellectual interests nurtured by early modern academic