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Tag Archives: History of Bruges
A FALLING TIDE LIFTS ALL EGOS
there were some wild times in Bruges. It was a city that had the virtue of living dangerously for a while. Their innovations on medieval financing through the Bill of Exchange and expertise as serving as a market maker that … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Baldwin Iron Arm, Bruges, Charles the Bold, Froissart Chronicles, Gerard David, Hans Memling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, History of Bruges, Isabella of Portugal, James M. Murray, Jan van Eyck, Jean C. Wilson, Jean Froissart, Madame de Beaugrant, Marc Boone, Morris L. Cohen, Philip the Good, Southey, Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth
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BLOOD & CHOCOLATE
What the tides created, the tides destroyed. It left a silt bound city that has hardly changed since the time of its glory as a trading port of the Middle Ages. If Bruges had not existed, it might have been … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Baldwin Iron Arm, Battle of the Golden Spurs, Book of Hours Bruges, Charles the Bald, Froissart Chronicles, George William Thomson Omond, Groening Museum, Guillaume Moreel, Hans Memling, History of Bruges, Jean de Navarre, Jean Froissart, John Ruskin, John Schofield, Lewis Mumford, Michael Wheeler, Pieter van Eyck, Pope Boniface VII
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