Flanders: A Cultural HistoryOxford University Press, USA, 11. juni 2007 - 296 sider Andre de Vries explores the varied landmarks of Flanders, both rural and urban, to reveal this region's unique character. Considering great cities such as Ghent, Antwerp, and Bruges, he traces the development of a civic culture based on both trade and ideas, in which religion and language play a vital part. Looking too at the Flemish countryside, he explains the role of festivals and folk culture, gluttony and pleasure, in the survival of a strongly local identity. |
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... Maeterlinck and his Hothouse Flowers Ghent can claim three Nobel Prize winners , one of whom is Maurice Maeterlinck , who was honoured in 1911 ( the other two were chemists ) . Maeterlinck ( 1862-1949 ) was never very popular with the ...
... Maeterlinck and his Hothouse Flowers Ghent can claim three Nobel Prize winners , one of whom is Maurice Maeterlinck , who was honoured in 1911 ( the other two were chemists ) . Maeterlinck ( 1862-1949 ) was never very popular with the ...
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A Cultural History Andre de Vries. creative writing , Maeterlinck wrote a piece about the animals in his grandmother's farmyard . The teacher suspected that Maeterlinck had copied it , but as he had written it in the class under the ...
A Cultural History Andre de Vries. creative writing , Maeterlinck wrote a piece about the animals in his grandmother's farmyard . The teacher suspected that Maeterlinck had copied it , but as he had written it in the class under the ...
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... Maeterlinck found interesting only as a place to buy gingerbread men . Later he was called on to officiate at a duel involving his friend , the poet Grégoire Le Roy , held in the woods at Oostakker ( or Ostacker as he calls it ) .
... Maeterlinck found interesting only as a place to buy gingerbread men . Later he was called on to officiate at a duel involving his friend , the poet Grégoire Le Roy , held in the woods at Oostakker ( or Ostacker as he calls it ) .
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