Resumen de L'éclosion scolaire: le développement du réseau des collèges dans les Pays-Bas espagnols et la principauté de Liège au 17ème siècle
During the first half of the 17th Century, a surprisingly large amount of monastery colleges were founded in the Spanish Netherlands. In this article we do not only try to measure the dimension of this phenomenon, we also examine the most important outlines of this dynamic event. In order to do so, we question the urban elite's role, and we pause at the activities developed by the monastic orders, who were involved in Latin education. Moreover, we focus upon an institutional initiative which had far-reaching consequences concerning the way in which the college network has been developed. Precisely because of the linking of the colleges with the monasteries, the foundation of such an institution left no-one of the local community cold. Although the monastery colleges were frequently questioned, the importance of secondary education remained beyond dispute, as if the youth as a pedagogical category had been discovered and one made an effort to provide them with an appropriate education
