The Spell of Flanders: An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern ProvincesVose, Edward Neville
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The Spell of Flanders: An Outline of the History, Legends and Art of Belgium's Famous Northern Provinces
Vose, Edward Neville
Flanders -- Description and travel
St. Piat, martyrdom at Tournai, 245;
statue of, on portal of Cathedral, 260;
life of, depicted on tapestry in Cathedral, 279.
St. Rombaut, Cathedral of, at Malines, 312; 313;
first view of, 317;
the tower and its builders, 318-323;
the chimes, 323-325;
interior and art treasures, 325-327; 328;
tower completed, 340.
St. Sauveur, Cathedral of, at Bruges, 47-50; 305-307; 362.
Ste. Ursula, Shrine of, 296-298.
Ste. Walburge, church of, at Audenaerde, 368; 369; 382;
description of, 383-385; 389.
Ste. Walburge, church of, at Furnes, 88 and 92.
Saventhem, 449-451.
Savoy, Duchess of, see Margaret of Austria.
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Leopold, Prince of, elected King of the Belgians,
461.
Saxe, Maurice, victor at Fontenoy, 251-255.
Scheldt, estuary, 17;
"the greyest of grey rivers," 18;
history of navigation on, 18-19;
view from, 19-20;
river traffic on, 20;
Antwerp from, 21;
monument on Place Marnix, 19; 169;
at Tournai, 266; 300;
snakes in, 382;
at Audenaerde, 387; 389;
legend of Brabo, 393-394;
displaces the Zwyn as highway of commerce, 394-395;
fight for mastery of, 399-400;
deepens as commerce grows, 400; 401; 414;
closed during reign of the Archdukes, 447;
opened to navigation in 1795, 459;
docks erected by Napoleon, 460;
free under the Dutch, 460;
freed permanently by Leopold I in 1863, 461;
growth of commerce since, 462.
Scott, Sir Walter, "Quentin Durward," cited, 288; 304.
Seghers, Daniel, 51.
Shelley, "Ode to the Skylark," quoted, 167-168.
Sigebert, brother of Chilperic, 248; 281.
Sluys, part of the Franc of Bruges, 59;
landing place of Margaret of York in 1468, 76;
Battle of, 201;
captured by Maurice of Nassau, 468.
Snellinck, Jean, "Creation of Eve" at Audenaerde, 388-389.
Snyders, Francis, animal pictures of, 453.
Spanish Fury, the, 415-418.
Spierinckx, Peter, 386.
Spinola, Ambrose, Marquis of, captures Ostende, 468-469.
Stallaert, "Death of Dido," 274.
Steen, 396; 398;
description of, 399.
Strada, the historian, cited, 378.
Swerts, Jean, mural paintings at Ypres, 125;
at Courtrai, 152.
T
Taillebert, Urban, 84.
Tancmar, Lord of Straten, 37.
Tani, Jacopo, 298.
Tapestry, 5;
workers organised into a guild, 230;
in church of St. Brice at Tournai, 264;
weaving at Tournai, 278-280; 376;
at Audenaerde, 384-390.
Templars, Tower of, at Nieuport, 95; 99;
House of, at Ypres, 140-141.
Teniers, David, 7; 386;
master of scenes of homely Flemish life, 453-454; 455; 456.
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