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For too long historiography has been founded on the assumption that the period up to the outbreak of the First World War was only an era of national integration and of national conflicts. This article anayzes the Italian connections of Belgian intellectual and freethinker Charles Potvin (1818-1902).We explore Potvin's ideological and practical support to the Risorgimento and his affinity with Mazzini.
Examining the connections of Potvin with ...

Onder de Belgen die zich in recente internationale opiniepeilingen uitlaten over hun religieuze overtuiging of het ontbreken daarvan, beschouwen aanzienlijke percentages van de respondenten zichzelf als atheïst. Tot hiertoe bestond er nochtans geen algemene studie in België over de rol van het atheïsme in de intellectuele, politieke en culturele geschiedenis van het land. Dit boek is het resultaat van een samenwerking tussen Liberas vzw en ...

While Spinoza’s impact on the early Enlightenment has always found due attention of historians of philosophy, several 17th-century Dutch thinkers who were active before Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus was published have been largely neglected: in particular Spinoza’s teacher Franciscus van den Enden (Vrye Politijke Stellingen, 1665), Johan and Pieter de la Court (Consideratien van Staet, 1660, Politike discoursen, 1662), Lodewijk Meyer ...

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contribution of the anonymous De jure ecclesiasticorum to the development of radical movements in the Enlightenment