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1. Introduction 1. Introduction
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2. The Louvain Faculty of Theology 2. The Louvain Faculty of Theology
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3. The medieval curriculum 3. The medieval curriculum
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4. Transformation in the Sixteenth Century 4. Transformation in the Sixteenth Century
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4.1 A Shortening Programme 4.1 A Shortening Programme
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4.2 Royal Patronage 4.2 Royal Patronage
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4.3 Rising Student Numbers 4.3 Rising Student Numbers
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4.4 Disputing to defend Catholicism 4.4 Disputing to defend Catholicism
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4.5 The Job Market 4.5 The Job Market
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5. Conclusion 5. Conclusion
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From Cathedral of the Mind to Bulwark of Orthodoxy: The Professionalisation of the Theology Curriculum at the University of Louvain, 1432–1600
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Published:September 2023
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Abstract
This chapter assesses whether the term ‘professionalisation’ can be applied to the momentous changes the programme of the Louvain Faculty of Theology underwent during the sixteenth century. These various educational shifts were not the result of a coherent visionary policy implemented by the collegium strictum, the Faculty board, but rather the outcomes of external pressures on the Faculty. Rising student numbers, state-building tactics of the Habsburg monarchy, and the Council of Trent’s programme for Catholic Reform presented diverse challenges to the curriculum that the theologians accommodated through negotiation. Although disparate, these developments did dovetail into a new programme of theological studies, a professionalised one at that. Moreover, by changing the way theological knowledge was transmitted, the knowledge itself altered. Ultimately, the early modern curriculum signals a transformation of the ‘epistemological field’ in which theological ideas were produced and thus indicates a changing conception of theology as a discipline at large.
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