11 December 2019
This PhD position is part of the interdisciplinary research project Innovation through Education: Pioneering Change in Law and Theology in Louvain’s Golden Age. Apply before February 15, 2019.
This book historical project investigates how the most important professors of law and theology during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries adapted their teaching content to the changing needs of society, in order to prepare the future elite for tackling the religious, political and economic challenges of their time. The source material consists of student notes that will be compared with printed material such as treatises and textbooks of the professors involved.
This vacancy is part of the large-scale project “Innovation through Education. Pioneering Change in Law and Theology during Leuven’s Golden Age”, which will be conducted by 5 PhD students and their supervisors in the Faculties of Arts, Law and Theology. It investigates how Louvain professors in law and theology during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries adapted the content and methods of their teaching to the changing needs of society, in order to prepare the future elites for tackling the religious, political and economic challenges of their time. The source material consists of student notes that will be compared with printed material such as treatises and textbooks of the professors involved.
More specifically regarding to the work package “Book archaeology”, it is the intention that this comparison between written and printed sources, in combination with archival material, can provide answers to questions such as: What was the influence of the printing press on the content and the organization of education? Was there an evolution in the use of printed material?, Was there a difference between the faculties with regard to the sources, and if so, how can this be explained?, … To this end, the PhD student will create a database within the ODIS infrastructure.
