The Spell of Flanders

About this eBook

Author

Vose, Edward Neville, 1870-1949

Title

The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces

Credits

E-text prepared by Greg Bergquist, Matthew Wheaton, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

DH: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg

Subject

Flanders -- Description and travel

Category

Text

eBook-No.

41830

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41830

Release Date

January 12, 2013

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The Spell of Flanders
2. 2.PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
3. 3.FOREWORD
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.CHAPTER I INTRODUCING FLANDERS AND THE FOUR PILGRIMS
7. 7.CHAPTER II VIEUX BRUGES AND COUNT BALDWIN OF THE IRON ARM
8. 8.CHAPTER III BRUGES IN THE DAYS OF CHARLES THE GOOD
9. 9.CHAPTER IV HOW BRUGES BECAME “THE VENICE OF THE NORTH”
10. 10.CHAPTER V DIXMUDE AND FURNES
11. 11.CHAPTER VI NIEUPORT AND THE YSER CANAL
12. 12.CHAPTER VII WHEN YPRES WAS A GREATER CITY THAN LONDON
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII COURTRAI AND THE BATTLE OF THE SPURS
14. 14.CHAPTER IX GHENT IN THE DAYS OF THE FLEMISH COUNTS
15. 15.CHAPTER X THE AGE WHEN GHENT WAS GOVERNED BY ITS GUILDS
16. 16.CHAPTER XI PHILIP THE GOOD AND THE VAN EYCKS
17. 17.CHAPTER XII TOURNAI, THE OLDEST CITY IN BELGIUM
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII SEVEN CENTURIES OF TOURNAISIAN ART
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV THE FALL OF CHARLES THE BOLD—MEMLING AT BRUGES
20. 20.CHAPTER XV MALINES IN THE TIME OF MARGARET OF AUSTRIA
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI GHENT UNDER CHARLES THE FIFTH—AND SINCE
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII AUDENAERDE AND MARGARET OF PARMA
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII OLD ANTWERP—ITS HISTORY AND LEGENDS
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX THREE CENTURIES OF ANTWERP PRINTERS
25. 25.CHAPTER XX ANTWERP FROM THE TIME OF RUBENS TILL TO-DAY
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI WHERE MODERN FLANDERS SHINES—OSTENDE AND “LA PLAGE”
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII THE SPELL OF FLANDERS
28. 28.BIBLIOGRAPHY
29. 29.INDEX

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