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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... organized by district running amok in the city . Too much exuberant revelry was a threat to public order , and so the authorities tried to organize festivities rather than let them carry on for weeks on end . By 1733 it was said that ...
... organized by district running amok in the city . Too much exuberant revelry was a threat to public order , and so the authorities tried to organize festivities rather than let them carry on for weeks on end . By 1733 it was said that ...
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... organized parade or carnavalstoet , and the tradition of fancy dress was also revived . Poorer people who could not afford to make costumes would borrow their spouse's cast - off clothes , so the men acquired the name of Voil Jeanet ...
... organized parade or carnavalstoet , and the tradition of fancy dress was also revived . Poorer people who could not afford to make costumes would borrow their spouse's cast - off clothes , so the men acquired the name of Voil Jeanet ...
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... organized a campaign to discredit Daens , who had by now started a political party as an alternative to the socialists and the ruling Catholic Party . The local factory owners , the Church hierarchy and even King Leopold II conspired to ...
... organized a campaign to discredit Daens , who had by now started a political party as an alternative to the socialists and the ruling Catholic Party . The local factory owners , the Church hierarchy and even King Leopold II conspired to ...
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