The Story of Brussels
by Ernest Gilliat-Smith
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About this eBook
- Author
- Gilliat-Smith, Ernest
- Credits
- Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Martin Mayer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DH: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg
- Subject
- Brussels (Belgium)
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 44314
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44314
- Release Date
- November 30, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Story of Brussels
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.GENEALOGICAL TABLES
- 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.CHAPTER I In the Days before Brussels was Built
- 7.CHAPTER II The Norsemen and Louvain
- 8.CHAPTER III The House of Long Col
- 9.CHAPTER IV The Making of the Duchy of Brabant
- 10.CHAPTER V The Rise of Brussels and Louvain
- 11.CHAPTER VI The Serfs of St. Peter
- 12.CHAPTER VII The greater and the lesser Folk
- 13.CHAPTER VIII The Coelveren and the Blankarden
- 14.CHAPTER IX Peter Coutherele
- 15.CHAPTER X The Peace of 1383
- 16.CHAPTER XI Reform versus Revolution
- 17.CHAPTER XII Everard T'Serclaes
- 18.CHAPTER XIII Liberty at Last
- 19.CHAPTER XIV The Trials of Jacqueline
- 20.CHAPTER XV Buildings and Builders—Romanesque Architecture — The Church of Saint Nicholas — The Crypt of Saint Guy at Anderlecht — Nivelles — Beguines and Beghards
- 21.CHAPTER XVI Buildings and Builders (continued) — Notre-Dame du Sablon — Notre-Dame de la Chapelle — Saint Michel et Sainte Gudule — Saint-pierre de Louvain — Mechlin. — The Town Hall of Brussels — The Town Hall of Louvain
- 22.CHAPTER XVII Pictures and Painters — Roger van der Weyden — Dierick Boudts — Hugo van der Goes — Quentin Metsys — Bernard van Orley
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII Conclusion
- 24.Notes
- 25.INDEX
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