Renaissance Children, 9789401473682
Hardcover
Royal childhood revealed: Art, education, and intrigue in Renaissance Mechelen.

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  • Hardcover

    192 pages

  • Release Date

    14 April 2021

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Summary

Three consecutive generations of Habsburg princes and princesses spent part of their early lives in Mechelen, a fiefdom of the Habsburg Netherlands and an important centre for politics, culture, and early childhood education in the 15th and 16th centuries. Other powerful families from all over Europe also sent their children to Mechelen - the most famous is perhaps Anne Boleyn, who later became Queen of England.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9789401473682
ISBN-10:9401473684
Author:Annemarieke Willemsen, Samuel Mareel, Till-Holger Borchert, Hilde De Ridder-Symoens
Publisher:Lannoo Publishers
Imprint:Lannoo Publishers
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:192
Release Date:14 April 2021
Weight:902g
Dimensions:245mm x 185mm
About The Author

Annemarieke Willemsen

Dagmar Eichberger is professor of art history at the University of Heidelberg. She has written several books, including Women at the Burgundian Court: Presence and Influence and Dürer and his Culture.

Till-Holger Borchert is an art historian and the artistic director of Musea Bruges. He has written numerous books, most recently Masterpiece: Van Eyck to Rubens.

Hilde De Ridder-Symoens is a retired professor of history at the Free University of Amsterdam and Ghent University. She is the author of A History of the University in Europe.

Anne-Marieke Willemsen is an art historian and archaeologist and is a curator in the medieval department of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden. She has written extensively on Roman and medieval children’s toys.

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