‘Pirenne and Co.’: The Internationalization of Belgian Historical Science (1880s-1920s)

How far were the Belgian historians eager to dialog with historians from other countries before the First World War? This question points out a twofold process: First, the internationalization of the Belgian historiography aimed at building an international community of historians involved in common projects of dictionaries, sources edition and books series. Second, this internationalization served the purposes of creating an internationally competitive Belgian historical school whose topics were embedded in the national framework. Internationalism was then intertwined with nationalism, a fact... Mehr ...