A State Beheaded: The Political Fall of Land’s Advocate Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
400 years ago Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was beheaded.
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High Road to Culture in Flanders and the Netherlands
400 years ago Johan van Oldenbarnevelt was beheaded.
In his monthly column, Dirk Vandenberghe draws attention to literary debuts from Flemish and Dutch writers which garnered less notice upon release than they deserve.
If we consider the history of the First World War from the perspective of its enduring legacy, 1917 was the most crucial year of all.
He was admired by Rosa Luxemburg and visited by Bakunin, Marx and Engels, yet almost no one knows his name today. Nevertheless, Jacob Kats was one of the founders of socialism in the turbulent nineteenth century.
What did the past smell like? And how does scent influence our culture? Biologist and philosopher Geerdt Magiels takes us to the stinking seventeenth century and to the nearly scent-free Low Countries of today.