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books on: Courtrai  - 348 results

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The Low Countries and the Hundred Years' War: 1326-1347
Book by Henry Stephen Lucas; University of Michigan, 1929
Subjects: Europe--Politics And Government--476-1492, Flanders--History, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453, Netherlands--History--To 1384
...defeat of the chivalry of France at Courtrai on July 11. The counts resistance to...Oostburg, Eecloo, Ghent, Dendermonde, Courtrai, Oudenaarde, Alost, Grammont, Thourout...chivalry of France on the fields below Courtrai at Groeninghe and totally defeated them...
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From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy
Book by Ellen E. Kittell; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991
Subjects: Belgium--History--To 1555, Bureaucracy--Belgium--Flanders--History, Finance, Public--Belgium--Flanders--History
...Bruges * Bruges Dowai * Douai Kortrijk Courtrai * Courtrai Gent Gand * Ghent Ieper Ypres...Cassel territory Coudenberg Coudenberg Courtrai Courtrai Courtrai castellany Courtrai castellany...
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Annals of Ghent
Book by Hilda Johnstone; Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1951
Subjects: Flanders--History--Sources
...said of many nobles who perished at Courtrai. Williams incantation was certainly...successes, notably the great victory at Courtrai. It ended in a truce September 20...contingent from Bruges at the battle of Courtrai, and laid low a multitude of the French...
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Annales Gandenses: Annals of Ghent
Book by Hilda Johnstone; Oxford University Press, 1985
Subjects: Flanders--History
...central event in it is the Battle of Courtrai in 1302, when the Flemish burghers...Philip IV -- and the Annals show how Courtrai and the events about it were in large...said of many nobles who perished at Courtrai. Williams incantation was certainly...
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A Plague of Insurrection: Popular Politics and Peasant Revolt in Flanders, 1323-1328
Book by William H. TeBrake; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
Subjects: Flanders--History, Flanders--Politics And Government, Flanders--Rural Conditions, Flanders--Social Conditions, Peasant Uprisings--Flanders, Peasantry--Flanders--History, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500
...battle fought outside the walls of Courtrai on 11 July 1302 in which 8,000 to 10...to achieve revenge for their defeat at Courtrai. A peace con cluded at Athis-sur-Orge...people. Immediately after the Battle of Courtrai, new coalitions swept into power in...
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journal articles on: Courtrai  - 10 results

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Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders
Journal article by Jan Dumolyn; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Flanders--History, Patricians (Rome)--Social aspects, Social mobility--Research
...Hector van Voorhoute, who was bailiff of Courtrai in 1424, at that time stayed in his castle...that in 1413 he owned another house in Courtrai, close to one of the city gates. (66...was spread throughout the districts of Courtrai and Lille. (69) In this way, officers...
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Guardianship over Women in Medieval Flanders: A Reappraisal
Journal article by Ellen E. Kittell; Journal of Social History, Vol. 31, 1998
Subjects: Family--Social aspects, Flanders--History, Middle Ages--Social aspects, Women--Social aspects
...Wulfars to the chapter of Notre Dame of Courtrai illustrates this nicely. A portion of...lancienne eglise collegiale de Notre Dame a Courtrai (Ghent, 1880), 162 no. 146. 56. Ibid...les hommes de leglize de Nostre-Dame de Courtrai . . . (ibid., 165 no. 149). 58...
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Emblematic Exhibitions (Affixiones) at the Brussels Jesuit College (1630-1685): A Study of the Commemorative Manuscripts (Royal Library, Brussels)
Journal article by Sandra Sider; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...fastened to tapestries or draperies in the inner courtyard. There are 45 manuscripts in the collection, including a few from Courtrai, with iconographic references to Erasmus, Alciato, Visscher, Rollenhagen, Cats, Jesuit drama, various saints, and many other...
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The Manuscript Reception of Jean Molinet's Trosne d'Honneur
Journal article by Adrian Armstrong; Medium Aevum, Vol. 74, 2005
Subjects: Le Trosne d'Honneur (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation, Medieval poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Molinet, Jean--Authorship, Molinet, Jean--Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Medieval--Criticism and interpretation
...MS II 2604, 16 fols; untitled F: Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, n. a. fr. 21532, 12 fols; Le trosne dhonneur H: Courtrai, Stedelijke Openbare Bibliotheek, MS 366, 10 fols; Le tronne donneur The anthologies devoted primarily to Molinet have three...
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Rimbaud, Verlaine, and Their Season in Hell
Journal article by Graham Robb; New England Review, Vol. 21, 2000
Subjects: Rimbaud, Arthur--1854-1891
...the gun and continues to drink. NOON By now, Verlaine, his mother, and Rimbaud have moved to the Hotel de la Ville de Courtrai in the Rue des Brasseurs. Rimbaud and Verlaine share a room: one door leads to the landing, the other into Mme. Verlaines...
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magazine articles on: Courtrai  - 2 results

 
 
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The Battle of the Golden Spurs: July 11th, 1302
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 52, July 2002
Subjects: Battles--Belgium, Edward I, King of England--Foreign relations, Flanders--History, France--History, Guy, Count of Flanders--Foreign relations, Massacres--Belgium, Philip, King of France--Military policy, Robert of Artois--Military policy
...up in triumph in the abbey church of Courtrai, whose townspeople had inflicted a remarkable...defeat on the massed chivalry of France. Courtrai was a prosperous Flemish cloth town on...Flemings in their place. When it reached Courtrai, however, the townsmen boldly took up...
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Cavalry to Computer; the Pattern of Military Revolutions
Magazine article by Andrew F. Krepinevich; The National Interest, Fall 1994
Subjects: Revolutions--Analysis, War--Analysis
...the tiny kingdom of Flanders, which was relatively quick in exploiting the revolution, was able to muster a larger army at Courtrai (1302) than the entire kingdom of France. Finally, the Infantry Revolution marked a sharp increase in casualties on the battlefield...


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newspaper articles on: Courtrai  - 3 results

 
 
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Don't Miss the Mussels in Brussels; They Call It Boring Belgium and Tell You That There's Not Much to See - and Even Less to Do. Backpacker JOANNE LANE Won't Have a Word of It
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), July 2, 2006
...jump on the train to Brussels. Eurolines buses service the major towns of Antwerp, Bruges, Brussels, Ghent, Liege, Mons and Courtrai. Holiday companies such as Eurocamp have sites in the area, where you can stay in a static caravan or tent. The Sunday Mercurys...
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Chilling Double Murder and Needless Destruction; Twenty Years Ago on Sunday Provisional IRA Gunmen Murdered Former Stormont Speaker Sir Norman Stronge and His Ex-MP Son James and Bombed Their Historic Ancestral Tynan Abbey Home near the Co Armagh Border with Co Monaghan. BILLY KENNEDY Looks Back on One of the Foulest and Most Callous Deeds of the Troubles
Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), January 19, 2001
...Haig after the Battle of the Somme began. He received the military cross and the Belgian Croix de Guerre and was wounded near Courtrai in October, 1918. In 1939, Sir Norman became the eighth baronet in his family and for 30 years from 1938 was the Ulster Unionist...
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Getting Warmer; House Prices May Be Rising All over London but Don't Despair Just Yet - We've Found 10 Property 'Warmspots' That Are Still Affordable (Although They Won't Be for Long)
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 14, 2007
Subjects: Investment banks, The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
...Oak Park station to London Bridge Where to buy? Families want to be on the five roads to the west of Stondon Park Road, from Courtrai in the north to Riseldine in the south, full of mostly 1930s terraced houses. Young professionals seek out the Victorian conversion...


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encyclopedia articles on: Courtrai  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Courtrai
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
COURTRAI see Kortrijk , Belgium. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Kortrijk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
KORTRIJK kort rik, Fr. Courtrai, city (1991 pop. 76,141), West Flanders prov., SW Belgium, on the Leie River. It is an important linen, lace, and textile-manufacturing...
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Battle of the Spurs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BATTLE OF THE SPURS 1 Fought in 1302 near Courtrai, Belgium, between the rebellious Flemish towns, led by Bruges, and an army sent by Philip IV of France, who had annexed Flanders...
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Philip IV , King of France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...defeat (1300), he imposed French rule on the Flemish. They rebelled and defeated (1302) the French at the disastrous battle of Courtrai. Although Philip was victorious over the Flemish in 1304, he was forced, in subsequent treaties, to reduce his demands on them...
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France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...administration was improved even more. Philip failed to incorporate Flanders into his holdings, as the Flemish crushed the French at Courtrai (1302). To meet his revenue needs Philip taxed the clergy, summoning the first national States-General (1302) to support...


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