Dr. Erik De Bom
Contact
Seminarium
Philologiae Humanisticae
Latijnse literatuurstudie / Latin Literature
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21, office 06.12, BOX 3311 (06.12)
B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
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Bom
Erik De Bom holds a MA in
Classics (2005) and a MA in Political Science (2011). In 2009 he obtained
his Ph.D. in Neo-Latin Studies with a dissertation on the reception of Justus
Lipsius’s political ideas in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century.
This Ph.D. was part of a research project, entitled Power and Passion,
Prince and People: Justus Lipsius’s Monita et Exempla Politica (1605)
as a Bridge between Political Philosophy and the Ideal of the Christian
Ruler, under the direction of Jan Papy and Toon Van Houdt, and financed
by the Research Council (Onderzoeksraad) of the Catholic University of Leuven
and the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk
Onderzoek-Vlaanderen).
Since January 2010
Erik De Bom is a research fellow of the Seminarium Philologiae Humanisticae.
In 2011-2012 he is a visiting professor for Latin Literature at the University
of Gent.
Erik De Bom’s research focuses on intellectual history, the history of political
thought, political philosophy, renaissance philosophy and Neo-Latin literature.
Current
research
Erik De Bom’s current research focuses on seventeenth century
political thought. In particular, he is working on a detailed study of the
political thought of Nicolaus Vernulaeus with special attention for his
Institutiones Politicae. He is also authoring the chapter on political
philosophy for the Encyclopaedia of Neo-Latin Studies (eds. Jan
Bloemendal, Charles Fantazzi and Philip Ford).
In the field of Neo-Latin literature Erik De Bom is now working on a Dutch
translation with commentary of Carolus Scribani’s Antverpia, an
idealizing description of the city of Antwerp, her citizens, arts and virtues.
Most
significant Publications
Erik DE BOM – Marijke JANSSENS – Toon VAN HOUDT – Jan PAPY (eds.),
(Un)masking the Realities of Power. Justus Lipsius and the Dynamics
of Political Writing in Early-Modern Europe, Brill’s Studies in Intellectual
History, 193 (Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2010)
Erik DE BOM, Geleerden en politiek. De politieke ideeën van Justus Lipsius in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden (Hilversum: Verloren, 2011)
Erik DE BOM, ‘Homo ipse ludus ac fabula’. Vives’s Views on the Dignity of Man as Expressed in his Fabula de homine’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 57 (2008), 91-114
Erik DE BOM, ‘Mirroring the Prince. Classical and Humanist Models in the Funeral Orations for Archduke Albert by Nicolaus Vernulaeus and His Contemporaries’, Neulateinisches Jahrbuch, 10 (2008), 41-59
Erik DE BOM, ‘Een subtiele transformatie van Justus Lipsius’ Monita et exempla politica? De Staatkundige vermaningen en voorbeelden van J. H. Glazemaker’, De Zeventiende Eeuw, 24 (2008), 210-226
Erik DE BOM, ‘Zoals een mooie maar onbetrouwbare vrouw? De vroegmoderne vertalingen van Justus Lipsius’ Monita et exempla politica (1605)’, Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis, 62 (2009), 75-93
Erik DE BOM, ‘Aphorisms and Examples, History and Politics. Chokier’s Thesaurus Politicorum Aphorismorum, 1611, and Lipsius’s Political Works’, Lias. Sources and Documents Relating to the Early Modern History of Ideas, 34 (2007) [2008], 21-44