"Vansina had a truly wonderful gift of making all his students feel like they could do anything. He seemed to know eve…"

"The ideal Dominican life was rich in the multiplicity and choice of its elements, and was thoroughly unified by its w…"

"The national culture of Belgium is a synthesis, if I may so call it, where one finds the genius of two races — the Ro…"

"The unification of all branches of study is advantageous in the way of contact and co-operation; and while each of th…"

"The history of mankind may have as many divisions as human life has aspects or sides. Its noblest form is the history…"

"Of the 3rd millennium BC , Marc van de Mieroop confessed ‘the chronology is confused owing to the Sumerian king list’…"

"The most successful work of the Belgian Church as been done in the field of education, in spite of most violent oppos…"

"As a matter of fact, a minority can transform a people when it wishes to dominate it effectively, when it has only co…"

"Once seen, Pirenne could not be forgotten. He looked like, and indeed was, one of those big, vivacious burghers whom …"

"The expansion of Islam was thus unable to absorb the whole of the Mediterranean. It encircled the Mediterranean on th…"