CONTENTS
Edward Neville Vose
CHAPTER
PAGE
Publishers’ Note
vii
Foreword
ix
I.
Introducing Flanders and the Four Pilgrims
1
II.
Vieux Bruges and Count Baldwin of the Iron Arm
15
III.
Bruges in the Days of Charles the Good
30
IV.
How Bruges Became “the Venice of the
54
V.
Dixmude and Furnes
78
VI.
Nieuport and the Yser Canal
94
VII.
When Ypres Was a Greater City than
116
VIII.
Courtrai and the Battle of the Spurs
146
IX.
Ghent in the Days of the Flemish
169
X.
The Age When Ghent Was Governed by
192
XI.
Philip the Good and the Van Eycks
218
XII.
Tournai, the Oldest City in Belgium
242
XIII.
Three Centuries of Tournaisian Art
268
XIV.
The Fall of Charles the Bold—Memling
285
XV.
Malines in the Time of Margaret of
311
XVI.
Ghent Under Charles the Fifth—and
344
XVII.
Audenaerde and Margaret of Parma
367
XVIII.
Old Antwerp—Its History and Legends
393
XIX.
Three Centuries of Antwerp Printers
411
XX.
Antwerp from the Time of Rubens Till
438
XXI.
Where Modern Flanders Shines—Ostende And “La Plage”
464
XXII.
The Spell of Flanders
480
Bibliography
485
Index
489
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