CONTENTS

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[Publishers’ Note]vii
[Foreword]ix
I.[Introducing Flanders and the Four Pilgrims]1
II.[Vieux Bruges and Count Baldwin of the Iron Arm]15
III.[Bruges in the Days of Charles the Good]30
IV.[How Bruges Became “the Venice of the]54
V.[Dixmude and Furnes]78
VI.[Nieuport and the Yser Canal]94
VII.[When Ypres Was a Greater City than]116
VIII.[Courtrai and the Battle of the Spurs]146
IX.[Ghent in the Days of the Flemish]169
X.[The Age When Ghent Was Governed by]192
XI.[Philip the Good and the Van Eycks]218
XII.[Tournai, the Oldest City in Belgium]242
XIII.[Three Centuries of Tournaisian Art]268
XIV.[The Fall of Charles the Bold—Memling]285
XV.[Malines in the Time of Margaret of]311
XVI.[Ghent Under Charles the Fifth—and]344
XVII.[Audenaerde and Margaret of Parma]367
XVIII.[Old Antwerp—Its History and Legends]393
XIX.[Three Centuries of Antwerp Printers]411
XX.[Antwerp from the Time of Rubens Till]438
XXI.[Where Modern Flanders Shines—Ostende And “La Plage”]464
XXII.[The Spell of Flanders]480
[Bibliography]485
[Index]489