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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... remained of the heroism of these men was a red puddle on the cold stones . Then the praying people rose and came forward ; knelt again and , almost with awe , dipped their handkerchiefs in the sacred blood - blood no longer of any one ...
... remained of the heroism of these men was a red puddle on the cold stones . Then the praying people rose and came forward ; knelt again and , almost with awe , dipped their handkerchiefs in the sacred blood - blood no longer of any one ...
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... remained in Rome , like many Flemish artists , but chose instead to return to Antwerp as conditions were more favourable than before . The Twelve Year Truce had been declared between the Spanish and the Dutch in 1609 , and in the same ...
... remained in Rome , like many Flemish artists , but chose instead to return to Antwerp as conditions were more favourable than before . The Twelve Year Truce had been declared between the Spanish and the Dutch in 1609 , and in the same ...
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... remained somnolent until Belgium gained its independence in 1830. There has never been another Flemish writer in France of his stature since . Inland from Dunkirk are the Moëres ( Dutch : Moeren ) , an area originally full of peat ...
... remained somnolent until Belgium gained its independence in 1830. There has never been another Flemish writer in France of his stature since . Inland from Dunkirk are the Moëres ( Dutch : Moeren ) , an area originally full of peat ...
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