Author: J. Watts de PeysterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
The Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Netherlanders
Author: J. Watts de Peyster
Author: Scotland and the Flemish People
Author: Alexander FlemingPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788851463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Flemish are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe's economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the Netherlands), they came to Scotland as soldiers and settlers, traders and tradesmen, diplomats and dynasts, over a period of several centuries following the Norman Conquest of England in the eleventh century. Several of Scotland's major families – the Flemings, Murrays, Sutherlands, Lindsays and Douglases for instance– claim elite Flemish roots, while many other families arrived as craftsmen, mercenaries and religiously persecuted émigrés. Adaptable and creative people, Flemish immigrants not only adjusted to Scotland's very different environment, but left their profound mark on the country's economic, social and cultural development. From pantiles to golf, from place names to town planning, the evidence of Flemish influence is still readily traceable in Scotland today. This book examines the nature of Flemish settlement in Scotland, the development of economic, diplomatic and cultural links between Scotland and Flanders, and the lasting impact of the Flemish people on Scottish society and culture.
Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112118314308 and Others
Author: Biennial Report
Author: State Library of IowaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
A Concise History of Belgium
Author: Guy VanthemschePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521192412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
"The nation-state Belgium, born in 1830, and the polities that preceded it since ancient times, have played an important role in European and even global history. This introductory history offers a synthetical and non-specialist yet academically based view on the social, economic, political, and cultural aspects of its evolution"--
Methuen's History of Medieval and Modern Europe: A history of Europe from 1715 to 1814, by W.F. Reddaway
Author: Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Author: Jane FenoulhetPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1910634972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Catalogue ...
Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
The Lion of Flanders
Author: Hendrik ConsciencePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1326062158
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
The Lion of Flanders is an historical novel, relating the Flemish struggle for freedom against France in the medieval times.