Full Description
The Louvain Collegium Trilingue: an appealing story of courageous vision
and an unseen international success. Thanks to the legacy of Hieronymus
Busleyden, counsellor at the Great Council in Mechelen, Erasmus launched
the foundation of a new college where international experts would teach
Latin, Greek and Hebrew for free, and where bursaries would live
together with their professors.
The foundation at the Louvain Fish Market, however, met with strong
opposition in a dramatic period of political and religious tensions. At
the same time, it conquered the whole of Europe alike. Hundreds of
students from various countries travelled to the Three-Language College,
renowned professors worked and taught there until the institute was
closed down during the French Revolution.
In this book the secret 'Erasmian' recipe used in this humanist language
education is analyzed and contextualized by specialists in the field.
Moreover, it appears that these new didactics in language and literature
also initiated an inspiring new scientific method.
