The Burgundians : a vanished empire : a history of 1111 years and one day / Bart Van Loo ; translated by Nancy Forest-Flier.
By: Loo, Bart van [author.]
Contributor(s): Forest-Flier, Nancy [translator.]Language: English Original language: Dutch Publisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2021Description: xxxii, 590 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, genealogical tablesContent type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781789543438; 9781789543452 Uniform titles: Bourgondiërs. English Subject(s): Netherlands -- History -- House of Burgundy, 1384-1477 | Belgium -- History -- To 1555 | Benelux countries -- History -- To 1500DDC classification: 949.201 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| 949 WRA The Swiss in London : | 949 YUG Yugoslavia through documents : | 949.2 KEN A concise history of the Netherlands / | 949.201 LOO The Burgundians : a vanished empire : a history of 1111 years and one day / | 949.5 CLO A concise history of Greece / | 949.5 CLO A concise history of Greece / | 949.5 WOO Modern Greece : |
"An Apollo Book."
Originally published as: De Bourgondiërs : aartsvaders van de Lage Landen. Amsterdam : De Bezige Bij, 2019.
The forgotten millennium (406-1369) -- The Burgundian century (1369-1467) -- The fatal decade (1467-77) -- A decisive year (1482) -- A memorable day (20 October 1496) -- Epilogue: the last Burgundian.
"At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival dynasties"-- Publisher's description.
Translated from the Dutch.