Le caractère pan-européen des guerres de religion suscite des questions sur l'incidence des frontières et le rôle des acteurs qui les franchissent ou les transgressent. Cet ouvrage retrace les parcours transrégionaux et confessionnels des Croÿ, une puissante maison nobiliaire établie de part et d'autre des frontières séparant la France et les Pays-Bas habsbourgeois, à travers la reconstitution des engagements politiques et religieux de ses membres (Porcien, Aarschot, Chimay, Havré, et leurs épouses ou mères Amboise, Lorraine, Clèves, Brimeu, Dommartin). Ce volume montre comment ces noblesses transrégionales bâtissent leur influence à l'ombre des rivalités internationales entre mis de France et d'Espagne, empereurs et ducs de Lorraine, et du choix de la religion au temps des Réformes ; comment elles assemblent stratégiquement leurs domaines, patronnent une clientèle locale et se font reconnaître comme souverains de micro-principautés ; et comment elles mobilisent ce capital politique en rivalisant avec d'autres lignages catholiques (Guise, Clèves) ou protestants (Condé, Bouillon), en désobéissant à leur prince ou en négociant leur réconciliation avec lui. Ont contribué à ce volume Anne Mieke Backer, Aurélien Behr, Olivia Carpi, Nette Claeys, Gustaaf Janssens, Alain Joblin, Odile Jurbert, Tomaso Pascucci, Sanne Maekelberg, Pieter Martens, Jonathan Spangler et Sylvia van Zanen.

Noblesses transrégionales - Les Croÿ et les frontières pendant les guerres de religion (France, Lorraine et Pays-Bas, XVIe et XVIIe siècle)

In the year 1516, two crucial texts for the cultural history of the West saw the light : Desiderius Erasmus' Nouum Instrumentum and Thomas More's Utopia. Both of these works dealt freely with authoritative sources of Western civilization and opened new pathways of thought on the eve of far-reaching religious and political changes. This book volume deals with aspects of the content, reception and influence of Nouum Instrumentum and Utopia in the (Early) Modern Era, while also focusing upon the sources they used and critically adopted. The overall approach is that both texts have contributed dramatically to the rise of (early) modern Western thought and have influenced the next generations in their literary, philosophical and theological works. This volume, multidisciplinary in scope, brings together contributions from the fields of bible exegesis, theology, philosophy, philology and history.

Authority Revisited - Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516

The early modern world was one of movement, contact, and exchange. Yet, this does not mean that it was borderless. On the contrary, connection existed only when people moved along and across the separations between polities, religions, and mentalities. So in order to understand early modern connections, one also needs to analyse the boundaries that accompanied them. In Transregional Territories, the early modern Low Countries are chosen as a ‘laboratory' for studying border formation and border management through the lens of transregional history. Eight different cases highlight the impact of boundaries on the actions and strategies of individuals and governments. Crossing borders in early modern times was not merely an act of negating a territorial division, but rather a moment of intimate interaction with the separation itself. As such, this volume illustrates how borders forced historical actors to adapt their behaviour, and how historians can use a transregional vantage point to better understand these changes. The cases are presented by leading border specialists and scholars of the early modern Low Countries : Fernando Chavarría Múgica, Victor Enthoven, Raingard Esser, Yves Junot, Marie Kervyn, Christel Annemieke Romein, and Patricia Subirade. Bram De Ridder, Violet Soen, Werner Thomas, and Sophie Verreyken are all members of the Early Modern History Research Group of the KU Leuven. Together, they have published extensively on transregional history and the history of the early modern Low Countries, grouped under the label of transregionalhistory.eu.

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