''Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire – Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis'', abbreviated RBPH/BTFG or simply RBPH, is a scholarly journal in the fields of
philology
Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...
and
history
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
, published in Belgium since 1922. Since 1953 it has included a compendious bibliography of current work on the
history of Belgium
For most of its history, what is today Belgium was either a part of a larger territory, such as the medieval Carolingian Empire, or was divided into a number of smaller states which were prominent among them. The pre Belgian states being, the Duc ...
, and it is the leading journal in this field.
[Els Witte, "Pioniers en pionierswerk", in ''De tuin van heden'', edited by Guy Vanthemsche, Machteld De Metsenaere and Jean-Claude Burgelman (Brussels, 2007), pp. 75-76.]
The inaugural issue in 1922 included
Henri Pirenne
Henri Pirenne (; 23 December 1862 – 24 October 1935) was a Belgian historian. A medievalist of Walloon descent, he wrote a multivolume history of Belgium in French and became a prominent public intellectual. Pirenne made a lasting contributi ...
's famous article "Mahomet et Charlemagne", as well as an article by
Paul Hamelius and a book review by
François-Louis Ganshof François-Louis is a French masculine compound given name which may refer to:
* François-Louis David Bocion (1828–1890), Swiss painter, designer and art professor
* François-Louis de Brach, 18th century French Navy lieutenant-colonel
* Fran� ...
.
See also
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Journal of Belgian History
The ''Journal of Belgian History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Cegesoma). It focuses on the history of Belgium in the 19th and 20t ...
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References
External links
Digitised issuesat Persée
Official website
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 1922
Multilingual journals
History journals
Philology journals
Historiography of Belgium
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