The Promised Lands: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530They were, in the words of one contemporary observer, ""the Promised Lands."" In all of Europe, only Northern Italy could rival the economic power and cultural wealth of the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages. In The Promised Lands, Wim Blockman |
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Perspectives on the Burgundian Dynasty in the Low Countries | 3 |
A New European Power in the Making 13631405 | 16 |
Burgundian Interests in France and the Low Countries 14041425 | 37 |
The Decisive Years 14251440 | 74 |
The Difficult Path Toward an Integral 14401465 | 105 |
The Promised Lands 14401475 | 143 |
War Crisis and a Problematic Succession 14651492 | 176 |
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