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Nic de Potter is co-author of six kids in Brussels and six books in Bruges. - His intelligence agency investigated families during twenty years. - He uncovered best stories out of the millenium (1050-2050). - Eleventh century Graal quest with King Godfrey in Ardennes - Heroïc Celtic craftsmen Tournai, 12thC. - French textile heretics in Renaix, 13thC. - Tough rebels to bloody Duke of Alba in Brabant, 15thC. - Dutch secret support during the great sickness, 16thC. - Brilliant Flemish scouts in Bruges, 17thC. - Brave Belgian revolution leader, 18thC. - Forgotten American migrants, 19thC. - German WW1 escape, 20thC. - Vanishing of Brussels, 21thC!? - Amazing true illustrated adventures! More info and sources: www.potter.c.la
While earlier historians have seen the elaborate public rituals of the Burgundian dukes as stagnant forms held over from the chivalric world of the High Middle Ages, Peter Arnade argues that they were a vital theater of power through which the ducal court and the urban centers constantly renegotiated their relationship. This book is the first to apply the combined insights of social, political, and cultural history to an important but little-explored area of medieval and early modern Europe, the Burgundian Netherlands. Realms of Ritual traces the role of ritual in encounters between the dukes of Burgundy (later the Habsburg princes) and the townspeople of Ghent, the most important city in th...