TY - BOOK ID - 16895007 TI - Religion, culture, and mentalities in the medieval Low Countries : selected essays AU - Milis, Ludovicus AU - Deploige, Jeroen AU - De Reu, Martine AU - Simons, Walter AU - Vanderputten, Steven AU - Galoppini, Laura AU - Jocqué, Luc AU - Kelders, Ann AU - Lambert, Véronique PY - 2005 SN - 2503518907 9782503518909 9782503539898 PB - Turnhout : Brepols, DB - UniCat KW - Church history KW - verzameling KW - Milis, Ludovicus, KW - Benelux countries KW - Church history. KW - 949.301 KW - C3 KW - cultuurgeschiedenis (x) KW - middeleeuwen (x) KW - Nederland [land in werelddeel Europa] KW - religie KW - Vlaams Gewest [gewest in land België - BE] KW - 940.1 KW - 940.1 Geschiedenis van Europa: Middeleeuwen:--(ca.375-1492) KW - Geschiedenis van Europa: Middeleeuwen:--(ca.375-1492) KW - Christianity KW - History Belgium Early history to 1477 KW - Kunst en cultuur KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Low countries KW - History of civilization KW - Christian church history KW - History of the Low Countries KW - anno 500-1499 KW - Monasticism and religious orders KW - Monachisme et ordres religieux KW - History. KW - Histoire KW - Belgium KW - Belgique KW - Social life and customs KW - Civilization KW - Histoire religieuse KW - Moeurs et coutumes KW - Civilisation KW - Milis, Ludovicus KW - Bibliography KW - Social life and customs. KW - Middle Ages, 500-1500 KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Vie religieuse KW - Moyen âge. KW - Histoire. KW - Pays-Bas KW - Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500. KW - Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Moyen âge. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16895007 AB - Ludo Milis graduated from Ghent University in 1961 as the last student of François-Louis Ganshof, who in the years after Henri Pirenne’s retirement was the most prominent representative of the famous “Ghent School” of medieval history. Milis’s own academic career at Ghent span four decades in which he followed in the footsteps of his masters, yet also explored new directions. Like his predecessors, Milis always attached great importance to the critical examination of primary sources, but for him, such work must serve broader historical inquiry guided by a precise set of questions and methodological rigor. His interests lay primarily in the study of religious and cultural history, which previously had been neglected at Ghent; he was also a pioneer in the history of mentalities in the Low Countries. Milis’s research and thought found expression in several books, among which his Angelic Monks and Earthly men. Monasticism and its Meaning to Medieval Society (Boydell, 1992), translated into many languages, was probably the most influential.This collection contains eleven essays published between 1969 and 1990. Most of them appeared in Dutch or French and have now been translated into English; two essays previously published in English were newly edited. All provide unique insight in the major themes of Milis’s work: the religious history of the Low Countries during the early and high Middle Ages, as well as the problem of religious conversion and persuasion; the rise of regular canons in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (also the subject of his doctoral dissertation on the order of Arrouaise, published in 1969); the uses of power and ideology; and the history of French Flanders. All bear witness to Milis’s inspiring ability to ask original, probing questions and to write historical syntheses accessible to a wide audience.The collection is presented to Ludo Milis by his students on the occasion of his retirement and his sixty-fifth birthday. ER -