The Promised Lands
Subtitle: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530 (The Middle Ages Series)
Contributors: Edward Peters (Editor); Lizabeth Fackelmans (Translator)
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812231304
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; c 1000 CE to c 1500; House of Habsburg, 1477-1556; Western Europe - History; History - General History; Western Europe - General; History: World; Western Continental Europe; Medieval; Western Europe - Benelux; History / Medieval; History; House of Burgundy, 1384-1477; Netherlands
First sentence: When the story of the Burgundian Netherlands began in 1369, the " foreigner" Philip the Bold, son of the late French king John II and brother of the reigning king Charles V, had only six years earlier been named duke of Burgundy and first peer of France by his father.