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'So One Would Notice the Good Navigability': Economic Decline and the Cartographic Conception of Urban Space in Late Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Bruges KU Leuven Vrije Universiteit Brussel Ghent University
© Cambridge University Press 2016. During most of the late medieval period, the Flemish city of Bruges acted as the main commercial hub of north-western Europe. In the course of the fifteenth century, however, Bruges lostmuchof its allure as an economic metropolis. One of the most urgent challenges the urban authorities were facing was the navigability of the waterways in and around the city. While the city government made structural investments ...
Who’s who in late-medieval Brussels? KU Leuven
Who’s who in late-medieval Brussels? KU Leuven
Deceptive simplicity. Flandria Borealis: between map and history, between image and representation KU Leuven Ghent University
At the end of the sixteenth century the development of printing technology sparked a knowledge revolution featuring an unprecedented distribution and integration of texts, images, and maps. Thorough research into these texts and maps, generally disregarded as inferior, can reveal surprising and relevant historical knowledge. Using Flandria Borealis, an engraved 'history map' depicting the Northern part of Flanders with the sieges of Sluis and ...