Flanders: A Cultural HistoryAndre 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. |
Inni boken
Resultat 1-3 av 35
Side 54
Other varieties are less commonplace , perhaps because the elaborate waffle irons used to make them are no longer manufactured . Old waffle irons are cheap to buy in the Sunday market in Bruges , and Het Huis van Alijn , the folklore ...
Other varieties are less commonplace , perhaps because the elaborate waffle irons used to make them are no longer manufactured . Old waffle irons are cheap to buy in the Sunday market in Bruges , and Het Huis van Alijn , the folklore ...
Side 70
The result has been to recreate perhaps the most sinister building in Belgium . Outside the wall is a large metal spider's web made by the German artist Stefan Kern in 2000 for the street art exhibition , Over the Edges .
The result has been to recreate perhaps the most sinister building in Belgium . Outside the wall is a large metal spider's web made by the German artist Stefan Kern in 2000 for the street art exhibition , Over the Edges .
Side 147
Perhaps the only gay pornographic novel to be set in the city , The Folding Star ( 1994 ) by the British Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst , is a tale of an English teacher who falls in love with one of his students but has to make ...
Perhaps the only gay pornographic novel to be set in the city , The Folding Star ( 1994 ) by the British Booker Prize winner Alan Hollinghurst , is a tale of an English teacher who falls in love with one of his students but has to make ...
Hva folk mener - Skriv en omtale
Vi har ikke funnet noen omtaler på noen av de vanlige stedene.
Innhold
War Language and Flemish Freedom | 1 |
Wars of Religion | 7 |
Flemish and Dutch | 13 |
Opphavsrett | |
14 andre deler vises ikke
Andre utgaver - Vis alle
Vanlige uttrykk og setninger
Allies Antwerp appeared artist Battle became become Belgian Belgium border born Brabant British Bruges Brussels building built café called Catholic centre century character Charles church close collection completed Count created Cross culture dead death died Dutch early English Ensor figure finally Flanders Flemish France French French-speaking German Ghent gives hand King known language leading less lived look major meaning Mechelen Menin Gate moved movement Museum nature Netherlands never official once organized original Ostend painter paintings perhaps play poet popular Protestant published region remained rest River Roman Rubens Scheldt Second side Spanish started statue story street style success taken took tourist tower town traditional translated turned village West World writer wrote Ypres
Bibliografisk informasjon
| Tittel | Flanders: A Cultural History Landscapes of the Imagination |
| Forfatter | Andre de Vries |
| Utgave | illustrert |
| Utgiver | Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 |
| Original fra | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisert | 28. jun 2008 |
| ISBN | 019531493X, 9780195314939 |
| Lengde | 296 sider |
| Eksporter sitat | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |