The Bollandist de Smedt wrote an Introductio generalis in Historiam ecclesiasticam critice tractandam (Louvain, 1876). A manual of church history was published by Wouters (Compendium hist. eccl., 3 vols., Louvain, 1874), who also wrote Dissertationes in selecta capita hist. eccl. (6 vols. Louvain, 1868–72). Josef Andreas Jungmann dealt with general church history to the end of the 18th century in his Dissertationes selectæ in historiam ecclesiasticam. The character of ecclesiastico-historical studies at Louvain is seen in the Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique edited by Cauchie and Ladeuze.
