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: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780812213829
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); World history; c 1000 CE to c 1500; House of Burgundy, 1384-1477; History; History - General History; Western Europe - Benelux; History: World; Western Continental Europe; House of Habsburg, 1477-1556; Medieval; History / Medieval; History-Western Europe - Benelux; Netherlands; Western Europe - General
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.