The Murder of Charles the Good
…I was in the midst of a great welter of events and many burning houses (set on fire by flaming arrows shot at night onto the roofs of the town both by those besieged within the castle and by freebooters outside who hoped to have a chance for looting)…
Coinage and Monetary Policies in Burgundian Flanders during the late-medieval ‘Bullion Famines’, 1384 – 1482
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Sacred Image and Illusion in Late Flemish Manuscripts
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Perceiving different images at different scales of research: the case of early Netherlandish painting
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Revolt and the Manipulation of Sacral and Private Space in 12th-Century Laon and Bruges
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Contemporary Views of Edward III’s failure at the Siege of Tournai
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God, leadership, Flemings and Archery: Contemporary Perspectives of Victory and Defeat at the Battle of Sluys 1340
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Parties and factions in the late middle ages: the case of the Hoeken and Kabeljauwen in The Hague (1483–1515)
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The Use of Scripture in The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis
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City Painters in the Burgundian Netherlands
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Typology of Medieval Historiography Reconsidered: A Social Re-interpretation of Monastic Annals, Chronicals and Gesta
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From a commercial peasant economy towards a commercial economy: landscape and society in coastal Flanders (13th-16th centuries)
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Historical landscape research and regional institutional history in the transition debate. A case study in coastal Flanders
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Intra-regional diversification of society, economy and cultural landscape in Late Medieval Drenthe (Northeast Netherlands)
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‘Social agro-systems’ reflected in landscapes. The example of ‘inland Flanders’ in the late middle ages and the early modern period
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Luxury and ultra-luxury consumption in later Medieval and Early Modern Dress: relative values of woollen textiles in the Low Countries and England, 1350-1550
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A New Deal: Bruges Burghers and Venetian Merchants Invent Mercantile Gambling
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Money and trust. Amsterdam moneylenders and the rise of the modern state, 1478-1794
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Polish-Flemish Trade in the Middle Ages
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Bruges and the German Hanse: Brokering European Commerce
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