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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457647503321

Autore

Blockmans Wim

Titolo

The Promised Lands : The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530 / / Wim Blockmans, Walter Prevenier; Edward Peters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]

©1999

ISBN

1-283-21117-3

9786613211170

0-8122-0070-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Collana

The Middle Ages Series

Altri autori (Persone)

FackelmansLizabeth

Disciplina

949.201

Soggetti

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editor's Note -- Preface -- 1. Perspectives on the Burgundian Dynasty in the Low Countries -- 2. A New European Power in the Making, 1363–1405 -- 3. Burgundian Interests in France and the Low Countries, 1404–1425 -- 4. The Decisive Years, 1425–1440 -- 5. The Difficult Path Toward an Integrated State, 1440–1465 -- 6. The Promised Lands, 1440–1475 -- 7. War, Crisis, and a Problematic Succession, 1465–1492 -- 8. The Second Flowering, 1492–1530 -- 9. The Burgundian Legacy -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, "the Promised Lands." In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages.In The Promised Lands, Wim Blockmans and Walter Prevenier trace the relations between the cultural and economic developments of the Low Countries and the political evolution of the region under the rule of the dukes of Burgundy. Combining political, diplomatic, administrative, economic, social, artistic, and cultural history, Blockmans and Prevenier have synthesized the most recent research on the subject—much of it



their own—to produce the most accessible and authoritative book in English on the subject.This is an updated and revised translation of a classic work first published in 1988, now expanded and reoriented toward a broader international readership.