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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... nearby Rabot , three round towers standing on a lock built to control the waters of the medieval Lieve Canal that runs to Sluis . Charles V was well acquainted with the Flemish , without having much sympathy for their concerns , and ...
... nearby Rabot , three round towers standing on a lock built to control the waters of the medieval Lieve Canal that runs to Sluis . Charles V was well acquainted with the Flemish , without having much sympathy for their concerns , and ...
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... Nearby was the pilgrimage place of Oostakker Lourdes , which the young 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 ...
... Nearby was the pilgrimage place of Oostakker Lourdes , which the young 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 ...
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... nearby 5 Korte Ridderstraat where Gezelle lived between 1865 and 1872 ( not 1865 to 1867 , as it says on the plaque ) . Gezelle had more or less given up writing poetry from 1865 and life did not become any easier for him . An English ...
... nearby 5 Korte Ridderstraat where Gezelle lived between 1865 and 1872 ( not 1865 to 1867 , as it says on the plaque ) . Gezelle had more or less given up writing poetry from 1865 and life did not become any easier for him . An English ...
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