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The Story of Bruges

The Story of Bruges

by Ernest Gilliat-Smith

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Author
Gilliat-Smith, Ernest
Credits
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DH: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg
Subject
Bruges (Belgium)
Category
Text
eBook-No.
46552
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46552
Release Date
August 10, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Story of Bruges by Ernest Gilliat-Smith Illustrated by Edith Calvert and H e r b e r t R a i l t o n
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.GENEALOGICAL TABLES
  5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS — The Story of Bruges
  6. 6.CHAPTER I The First Flemings
  7. 7.CHAPTER II Earliest Bruges
  8. 8.CHAPTER III Arnulph the Great
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV Progress of the City
  10. 10.CHAPTER V The Murder of Charles the Good
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI Vengeance
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII Bruges in the Days of Charles the Good, etc.
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII William Cliton
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX Dierick of Alsace and the Precious Blood
  15. 15.CHAPTER X Philip of Alsace and the Charter of the Franc
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI Baldwin of Constantinople
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII The Love Story of Bourchard d’Avesnes
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII The French Annexation
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV Peter de Coninck
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV The Battle of the Golden Spurs
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI The Great Charter—The Belfry and the Tower of Notre Dame
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII Louis of Nevers
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII Louis of Maele
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX Bruges under the Princes of the House of Burgundy—Philip le Hardi and John Sans Peur—1385-1419
  25. 25.CHAPTER XX The Great Humiliation
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXI The Terrible Duke and his Gentle Daughter
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXII The Final Catastrophe
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII The Architects and Architecture of Bruges in the Fifteenth Century
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV The Painters and the Pictures of Bruges in the Fifteenth Century — Hubert van Eyck — John van Eyck — Gerard David — Roger van der Weyden. — Dierick Boudts. — Hans Memlinc.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXV Modern Bruges
  31. 31.INDEX

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