  CHAPTER I INTRODUCING FLANDERS AND THE FOUR PILGRIMS CHAPTER II VIEUX BRUGES AND COUNT BALDWIN OF THE IRON ARM CHAPTER III BRUGES IN THE DAYS OF CHARLES THE GOOD CHAPTER IV HOW BRUGES BECAME "THE VENICE OF THE NORTH" CHAPTER VI NIEUPORT AND THE YSER CANAL CHAPTER VII WHEN YPRES WAS A GREATER CITY THAN LONDON CHAPTER VIII COURTRAI AND THE BATTLE OF THE SPURS CHAPTER IX GHENT IN THE DAYS OF THE FLEMISH COUNTS CHAPTER X THE AGE WHEN GHENT WAS GOVERNED BY ITS GUILDS CHAPTER XI PHILIP THE GOOD AND THE VAN EYCKS CHAPTER XII TOURNAI, THE OLDEST CITY IN BELGIUM CHAPTER XIII SEVEN CENTURIES OF TOURNAISIAN ART CHAPTER XIV THE FALL OF CHARLES THE BOLD MEMLING AT BRUGES CHAPTER XV MALINES IN THE TIME OF MARGARET OF AUSTRIA CHAPTER XVI GHENT UNDER CHARLES THE FIFTH AND SINCE CHAPTER XVII AUDENAERDE AND MARGARET OF PARMA CHAPTER XVIII OLD ANTWERP ITS HISTORY AND LEGENDS CHAPTER XIX THREE CENTURIES OF ANTWERP PRINTERS CHAPTER XX ANTWERP FROM THE TIME OF RUBENS TILL TO-DAY CHAPTER XXI WHERE MODERN FLANDERS SHINES OSTENDE AND "LA PLAGE" CHAPTER XXII THE SPELL OF FLANDERS Title: The Spell of Flanders An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces Author: Edward Neville Vose Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by Greg Bergquist, Matthew Wheaton, |
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THE SPELL OF FLANDERS
THE SPELL SERIES
Each volume with one or more colored plates and many illustrations from original drawings or special photographs. Octavo, with decorative cover, gilt top, boxed.
Per volume $2.50 net, carriage paid $2.70
THE SPELL OF ITALY
By Caroline Atwater Mason
THE SPELL OF FRANCE
By Caroline Atwater Mason
THE SPELL OF ENGLAND
By Julia de W. Addison
THE SPELL OF HOLLAND
By Burton E. Stevenson
THE SPELL OF SWITZERLAND
By Nathan Haskell Dole
THE SPELL OF THE ITALIAN LAKES
By William D. McCrackan
THE SPELL OF TYROL
By William D. McCrackan
THE SPELL OF JAPAN
By Isabel Anderson
THE SPELL OF SPAIN
By Keith Clark
THE SPELL OF FLANDERS
By Edward Neville Vose
THE SPELL OF THE HOLY LAND
By Archie Bell
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
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The Spell of Flanders
An Outline of the History, Legends and Art
of
BELGIUM’S
Famous Northern Provinces
Being the story of a Twentieth Century Pilgrimage
in a Sixteenth Century Land
just before the Outbreak of the Great War
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BOSTON
THE PAGE COMPANY
MDCCCCXV
Copyright, 1915,
By The Page Company All rights reserved
First Impression, April, 1915
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS COMPANY, BOSTON, U. S. A.
To
ALBERT I.,
King of the Belgians,
the guiding star of a brave nation
and
the hero of the Battle of Flanders
in the Great War,
this book is dedicated
