Chapter 3. Life in sixteenth-century Antwerp

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4 février 2013

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In the summer of 1540, a lavish wedding was celebrated in the Onze Lieve Vrouwekathedral (Our Lady’s Cathedral) of Antwerp. The pride of the city and site of its most important events, the cathedral had a gigantic spire, which rose to nearly four hundred feet and was topped by bronze bells. The church, completed in 1521, had taken more than two centuries to build and remained the largest gothic structure in the Low Countries. If not for a fire in 1533, chances are that construction of a new c...

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