Christoph De Spiegeleer
Biographic Data
| ID | 6515768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christoph De Spiegeleer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christoph |
| FAMILY NAME | De Spiegeleer |
| SIGNATURE | DE SPIEGELEER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Brussel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4927-8607 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Er zijn onder ons naast vurige deïsten ook complete atheïsten die zielsrust putten uit de ontkenning van God’
De bakermat van de vrijdenkersbeweging in België ligt in Brussel toen daar tijdens de jaren 1850 en 1860 de eerste vrijdenkersverenigingen werden opgericht. Het veelvormige ongeloof van de Brusselse vrijdenkers die bij deze verenigingen betrokken waren had verschillende morele dimensies. Het antiklerikalisme dat aan de basis lag van de eerste vrijdenkersverenigingen die als begrafenisverenigingen functioneerden was duidelijk moreel begeesterd. Va…
Secularity and Belgium’s Death System, 1850–1950
‘Funerary Culture Wars’ in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Europe and the Case of the Brussels’ Freethought Movement
This article explores how the control of religious authority over funerary culture became a contentious issue on a pan-European level during the course of the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. A comparative analysis of the conflicts around burial and cremation in various European nation-states highlights the two-dimensional character of these ‘funerary culture wars’. Freethinkers were radical players in these institution…
Her death is as saintly as her life’. Media representations of royal deathbeds in Belgium, 1850–1910
This paper explores the media representations of the deathbeds of Queen Louise-Marie (1850), King Leopold I (1865), Queen Marie-Henriette (1902) and King Leopold II (1909) of Belgium. Print and visual media made the dominant ideals of the ‘beautiful death’ and the ‘good death’ tangible and visible by representing the last moments of Belgian kings and queens. Whether these representations showed the royal family in a positive or a negative light d…
Challenging the Societal Death System
This paper reconstructs the history of civil funerals in Belgium during the long 19th century within a broader European context. Human agency was very important in challenging the Catholic hegemony over the cult of the dead in the funeral system of 19th-century Belgium. From the middle of the century onwards, anticlericals, driven by a new spirit of independence, set up their own processions and graveside ceremonies outside the sacramental system…
Introduction
de Spiegeleer Christoph. Introduction : Secularisation, Anticlericalism and Funerary Culture in Late Modern Europe . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 95, fasc. 4, 2017. Histoire Médiévale, Moderne et Contemporaine – Middleleeuwse, Moderne en Hedendaagse Geschiedenis. pp. 833-847
Secularizing funerary culture in nineteenth-century Belgium
Modern historiography of collective attitudes, practices, and conflicts surrounding death often focuses on the institutional history of cemeteries and nonreligious funerals in 19th-century France. Institutional and cultural discussions concerning funerals and cemeteries also divided nineteenth-century Belgium. This article explores emblematic civil burials and the secularization of cemeteries in major Belgian cities. The article distinguishes dif…
Royal Losses, Symbolic Politics and Media Events in Interwar Europe
This article examines the public and private responses to the accidental deaths of King Albert I and Queen Astrid of Belgium in 1934 and 1935. The public and private mourning for Albert and Astrid and the impact of their deaths and funerals can only be understood when we analyse these events against the background of structural transformations in national identity, international and national politics and media culture in interwar Europe. The anal…
The blood of martyrs is the seed of progress’. The role of martyrdom in socialist death culture in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1880–1940
The rhetoric and forms of representation of martyrdom in the death culture of international socialism is explored in relation to Belgium and the Netherlands, notably in Ghent and Amsterdam, 1880–1940. Press material reveals the way forms of commemoration combined Christian and socialist imagery to galvanise followers and offer them a frame of transcendence. The link between narratives of commemoration and social agitation in relation to strikes a…
Charles Potvin (1818-1902) en de progressistische politieke cultuur
Charles Potvin (1818-1902) and the Progressive Political Culture An analysis of the life and work of the Belgian writer and political philosopher Charles Potvin (1818-1902) and his (inter) national contacts/ networks enables us to gain a more in-depth knowledge of the progressive liberal mentality and organisational culture in Belgium during the years 1850-1900 and the blurred boundaries between culture and politics in those days. Progressive lib…
Secularizing funerary culture in nineteenth-century Belgium
Modern historiography of collective attitudes, practices, and conflicts surrounding death often focuses on the institutional history of cemeteries and nonreligious funerals in 19th-century France. Institutional and cultural discussions concerning funerals and cemeteries also divided nineteenth-century Belgium. This article explores emblematic civil burials and the secularization of cemeteries in major Belgian cities. The article distinguishes dif…
Royal Losses, Symbolic Politics and Media Events in Interwar Europe
This article examines the public and private responses to the accidental deaths of King Albert I and Queen Astrid of Belgium in 1934 and 1935. The public and private mourning for Albert and Astrid and the impact of their deaths and funerals can only be understood when we analyse these events against the background of structural transformations in national identity, international and national politics and media culture in interwar Europe. The anal…
Charles Potvin (1818-1902) en de progressistische politieke cultuur
Charles Potvin (1818-1902) and the Progressive Political Culture An analysis of the life and work of the Belgian writer and political philosopher Charles Potvin (1818-1902) and his (inter) national contacts/ networks enables us to gain a more in-depth knowledge of the progressive liberal mentality and organisational culture in Belgium during the years 1850-1900 and the blurred boundaries between culture and politics in those days. Progressive lib…
The blood of martyrs is the seed of progress’. The role of martyrdom in socialist death culture in Belgium and the Netherlands, 1880–1940
The rhetoric and forms of representation of martyrdom in the death culture of international socialism is explored in relation to Belgium and the Netherlands, notably in Ghent and Amsterdam, 1880–1940. Press material reveals the way forms of commemoration combined Christian and socialist imagery to galvanise followers and offer them a frame of transcendence. The link between narratives of commemoration and social agitation in relation to strikes a…
Royal Losses, Symbolic Politics and Media Events in Interwar Europe
This article examines the public and private responses to the accidental deaths of King Albert I and Queen Astrid of Belgium in 1934 and 1935. The public and private mourning for Albert and Astrid and the impact of their deaths and funerals can only be understood when we analyse these events against the background of structural transformations in national identity, international and national politics and media culture in interwar Europe. The anal…
Secularizing funerary culture in nineteenth-century Belgium
Modern historiography of collective attitudes, practices, and conflicts surrounding death often focuses on the institutional history of cemeteries and nonreligious funerals in 19th-century France. Institutional and cultural discussions concerning funerals and cemeteries also divided nineteenth-century Belgium. This article explores emblematic civil burials and the secularization of cemeteries in major Belgian cities. The article distinguishes dif…
Challenging the Societal Death System
This paper reconstructs the history of civil funerals in Belgium during the long 19th century within a broader European context. Human agency was very important in challenging the Catholic hegemony over the cult of the dead in the funeral system of 19th-century Belgium. From the middle of the century onwards, anticlericals, driven by a new spirit of independence, set up their own processions and graveside ceremonies outside the sacramental system…
Introduction
de Spiegeleer Christoph. Introduction : Secularisation, Anticlericalism and Funerary Culture in Late Modern Europe . In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 95, fasc. 4, 2017. Histoire Médiévale, Moderne et Contemporaine – Middleleeuwse, Moderne en Hedendaagse Geschiedenis. pp. 833-847
Her death is as saintly as her life’. Media representations of royal deathbeds in Belgium, 1850–1910
This paper explores the media representations of the deathbeds of Queen Louise-Marie (1850), King Leopold I (1865), Queen Marie-Henriette (1902) and King Leopold II (1909) of Belgium. Print and visual media made the dominant ideals of the ‘beautiful death’ and the ‘good death’ tangible and visible by representing the last moments of Belgian kings and queens. Whether these representations showed the royal family in a positive or a negative light d…
Secularity and Belgium’s Death System, 1850–1950
‘Funerary Culture Wars’ in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Europe and the Case of the Brussels’ Freethought Movement
This article explores how the control of religious authority over funerary culture became a contentious issue on a pan-European level during the course of the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. A comparative analysis of the conflicts around burial and cremation in various European nation-states highlights the two-dimensional character of these ‘funerary culture wars’. Freethinkers were radical players in these institution…
‘Er zijn onder ons naast vurige deïsten ook complete atheïsten die zielsrust putten uit de ontkenning van God’
De bakermat van de vrijdenkersbeweging in België ligt in Brussel toen daar tijdens de jaren 1850 en 1860 de eerste vrijdenkersverenigingen werden opgericht. Het veelvormige ongeloof van de Brusselse vrijdenkers die bij deze verenigingen betrokken waren had verschillende morele dimensies. Het antiklerikalisme dat aan de basis lag van de eerste vrijdenkersverenigingen die als begrafenisverenigingen functioneerden was duidelijk moreel begeesterd. Va…
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