PREFACE

CONTENTS

GENEALOGICAL TABLES

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I The First Flemings

CHAPTER II Earliest Bruges

CHAPTER III Arnulph the Great

CHAPTER IV Progress of the City

CHAPTER V The Murder of Charles the Good

CHAPTER VI Vengeance

CHAPTER VII Bruges in the Days of Charles the Good, etc.

CHAPTER VIII William Cliton

CHAPTER IX Dierick of Alsace and the Precious Blood

CHAPTER X Philip of Alsace and the Charter of the Franc

CHAPTER XI Baldwin of Constantinople

CHAPTER XII The Love Story of Bourchard d'Avesnes

CHAPTER XIII The French Annexation

CHAPTER XIV Peter de Coninck

CHAPTER XV The Battle of the Golden Spurs

CHAPTER XVI The Great Charter The Belfry and the Tower of Notre Dame

CHAPTER XVII Louis of Nevers

CHAPTER XVIII Louis of Maele

CHAPTER XIX Bruges under the Princes of the House of

CHAPTER XX The Great Humiliation

CHAPTER XXI The Terrible Duke and his Gentle Daughter

CHAPTER XXII The Final Catastrophe

CHAPTER XXIII The Architects and Architecture of Bruges in the Fifteenth Century

CHAPTER XXIV The Painters and the Pictures of Bruges in the Fifteenth Century

CHAPTER XXV Modern Bruges

INDEX

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Contents
Illustrations
Genealogical Tables
Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, Y, Z
Footnotes

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