Flanders: A Cultural HistoryOxford University Press, 11. juni 2007 - 256 sider André 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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... buildings . The fields are as flat as a paved square ; but , on the other hand , the streets and roofs are as uproarious as a forest in a great wind . Building one's own home is an important symbolic act , as a house is seen as a refuge ...
... buildings . The fields are as flat as a paved square ; but , on the other hand , the streets and roofs are as uproarious as a forest in a great wind . Building one's own home is an important symbolic act , as a house is seen as a refuge ...
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... buildings also creates a sense of incongruity that is typi- cally Flemish . Architecturally speaking , one certainly never knows what is around the next corner . No wonder that the Flemish have a liking for down - to - earth absurdity ...
... buildings also creates a sense of incongruity that is typi- cally Flemish . Architecturally speaking , one certainly never knows what is around the next corner . No wonder that the Flemish have a liking for down - to - earth absurdity ...
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... build a canal to the River Leie . A Ghent army known as the Witte Kaproenen ( White Hoods ) put a stop to the digging of the canal in 1379. The French king was urged to intervene by the Duke of Burgundy , Philip the Bold , who had ...
... build a canal to the River Leie . A Ghent army known as the Witte Kaproenen ( White Hoods ) put a stop to the digging of the canal in 1379. The French king was urged to intervene by the Duke of Burgundy , Philip the Bold , who had ...
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... buildings there from before that date . In 1701 the Spanish King Charles II made the grandson of Louis XIV heir to the Spanish throne in his will , setting off the War of the Spanish Succession which pitted the British , Dutch and Holy ...
... buildings there from before that date . In 1701 the Spanish King Charles II made the grandson of Louis XIV heir to the Spanish throne in his will , setting off the War of the Spanish Succession which pitted the British , Dutch and Holy ...
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Religion and Folklore | 31 |
Food Drink and Popular Culture | 45 |
Ghent and the Gate to Hell | 65 |
East Flanders and the Scheldt | 99 |
Bruges Petrified Dreams | 119 |
Ypres and the First World War | 151 |
The Coast and West Flanders | 171 |
Brussels Leuven and Mechelen | 225 |
The Kempen and Limburg | 243 |
New Landscapes and Dutch Flanders | 255 |
French Flanders | 265 |
Further Reading | 279 |
Index of Literary Historical Names | 289 |
Index of Places | 294 |
Antwerp City of Rubens | 193 |
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