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| Author | : Andrew Brown |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 796 |
| Release | : 2018-05-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1108318096 |
Bruges was undoubtedly one of the most important cities in medieval Europe. Bringing together specialists from both archaeology and history, this 'total' history presents an integrated view of the city's history from its very beginnings, tracing its astonishing expansion through to its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. The authors' analysis of its commercial growth, industrial production, socio-political changes, and cultural creativity is grounded in an understanding of the city's structure, its landscape and its built environment. More than just a biography of a city, this book places Bruges within a wider network of urban and rural development and its history in a comparative framework, thereby offering new insights into the nature of a metropolis.
| Author | : Andrew Brown |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 574 |
| Release | : 2018-05-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110832181X |
Bruges was undoubtedly one of the most important cities in medieval Europe. Bringing together specialists from both archaeology and history, this 'total' history presents an integrated view of the city's history from its very beginnings, tracing its astonishing expansion through to its subsequent decline in the sixteenth century. The authors' analysis of its commercial growth, industrial production, socio-political changes, and cultural creativity is grounded in an understanding of the city's structure, its landscape and its built environment. More than just a biography of a city, this book places Bruges within a wider network of urban and rural development and its history in a comparative framework, thereby offering new insights into the nature of a metropolis.
| Author | : Jeff Rider |
| Publisher | : CUA Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2009-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0813217199 |
Edited by two of the world's most prominent specialists on Galbert today, Jeff Rider and Alan V. Murray, this book brings together essays by established scholars who have been largely responsible for the radical changes in the understanding of Galbert and his work that have occurred over the last thirty years and essays by younger scholars.
| Author | : Andrew Brown |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2011-03-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139494740 |
Public religious practice lay at the heart of civic society in late medieval Europe. In this illuminating study, Andrew Brown draws on the rich and previously little-researched archives of Bruges, one of medieval Europe's wealthiest and most important towns, to explore the role of religion and ceremony in urban society. The author situates the religious practices of citizens - their investment in the liturgy, commemorative services, guilds and charity - within the contexts of Bruges' highly diversified society and of the changes and crises the town experienced. Focusing on the religious processions and festivities sponsored by the municipal government, the author challenges much current thinking on, for example, the nature of 'civic religion'. Re-evaluating the ceremonial links between Bruges and its rulers, he questions whether rulers could dominate the urban landscape by religious or ceremonial means, and offers new insight into the interplay between ritual and power of relevance throughout medieval Europe.
| Author | : Reinhard Strohm |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780193164185 |
The musical achievements of the so-called `Franco-Flemish School' have attracted many writers, yet Bruges itself has still to be put back on the map of European music history. This book describes how the people of Bruges shaped their acoustic environment and gave musical expression to their spiritual needs. It is based on a scrutiny of musical sources, stylistic trends in music, composers' achievements, and the function of musical genres; all these are seen against a reconstruction, fromarchival sources, of the socio-economic context of the art of music - an art which, in all its various manifestations, `high' and `low', sacred and secular, courtly and civic, polyphonic and monophonic, mirrors later medieval urban culture as a whole.
| Author | : Galbert (de Bruges) |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2013-11-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0300152302 |
In 1127 Charles the Good, count of Flanders, was surrounded by assassins while at prayer and killed by a sword blow to the forehead. His murder upset the fragile balance of power between England, France, and the Holy Roman Empire, giving rise to a bloody civil war while impacting the commercial life of medieval Europe. The eyewitness account by the Flemish cleric Galbert of Bruges of the assassination and the struggle for power that ensued is the only journal to have survived from twelfth century Europe. This new translation by medieval studies expert Jeff Rider greatly improves upon all previous versions, substantially advancing scholarship on the Middle Ages while granting new life and immediacy to Galbert’s well informed and courageously candid narrative.
| Author | : Renaud Adam |
| Publisher | : Exhibitions International |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts |
| ISBN | : 9789461614391 |
La 4e de couverture indique : "In the late Middle Ages, the time of Charles the Bold and Hans Memling, Bruges was a metropolis of books. One of the central figures in the international book trade was Colard Mansion (active from 1457 to 1484). Initially, in addition to being a valued translator, Mansion was primarily a highly sought-after copyist of luxury manuscripts, but when the art of printing made its entrée in Europe in 1455, he saw his chance and became one of the first in the Low Countries to specialise in the new medium of printed books. In no time, he became one of the most important book entrepreneurs in Bruges and environs. In this book, manuscripts, illuminated incunabula and rare prints bring Mansion's innovative book business back to life. Nearly fifty specialists from around the world offer unique insights into Mansion's life, many aspects of which are shrouded in mystery. Among other things they describe the gradual transition from manuscript to print, explain workshop practices and publishers' strategies, and provide contextual information about late-medieval printmaking and the creation of an impressive oeuvre of literary editions in the vernacular. Mansion developed a brand that remained solid for centuries. This book holds the key to understanding why."
| Author | : Jacoba van Leeuwen |
| Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
| Total Pages | : 162 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9789058675224 |
Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 37In the context of late medieval state centralization, the political autonomy of the towns of the Low Countries, Northern France, and the Swiss confederation was threatened by central governments. Within this conflict both rulers and towns employed symbolic means of communication to legitimate their power. The authors of Symbolic Communication in Late Medieval Towns explore how new layers of meaning were attached to well-known traditions and how these new rituals were perceived. They study the public encounters between rulers and towns, as well as among various social groups within the towns.
| Author | : Jean C. Wilson |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780271044071 |
Wilson (art history, State U. of New York-Binghamton) examines the origins and nature of the demand for painting in Bruges over the course of the 15th century. She traces the combined influences of the opulent Burgundian court, an affluent urban bourgeoisie, and an increasingly expanding community of painters, and the effects of this dynamic social configuration on the newly emerging art of oil painting, the community of painters, and their workshop and marketing practices. Superb bandw illustrations throughout. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Martin McDonagh |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber Plays |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2008-04-15 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0571242316 |
A jet-black comedy debut from Martin McDonagh.
