Iustus Lipsius Europae Lumen et Columen

• Main Author: De Landtsheer, Jeanine (auth)
• Other Authors: Papy, Jan (auth), Tournoy, Gilbert (eds) (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leuven University Press 1999
• Series: Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Some six years ago the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Spanish-Dutch humanist Juan Luis Vives celebrated in Spain and especially in his hometown Valencia. On a much smaller scale Leuven also contributed to the celebration of this humanist, who outdid even the great Erasmus in originality of id...