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History of the Low Countries

, 2022
The history of the smaller European countries is rather neglected in the teaching of European history at university level. We are therefore pleased to announce the publication of the first comprehensive history of the Low Countries -- in English -- from ...
J. Blom, E. Lamberts, J. Kennedy
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‘For help and comfort and to resist the enemy of God’: Greek refugees in the Burgundian Low Countries

Journal of Medieval History, 2023
It is well known that after the fall of Constantinople, Greek refugees fled to Western Europe. This migration is usually associated with Italy, where it stimulated the further development of the Renaissance. It is sometimes overlooked that the Burgundian
Hendrik Callewier
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The Impact of Tax-Benefit Systems on Low-Income Households in the Benelux Countries

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2001
Computing the tax-benefit position of similar "typical" households across countries is a method widely used in comparative fiscal- and social policy research.
Frédéric Berger, M. Borsenberger, H. Immervoll, J. Lumen, Bertrand Scholtus, K. Vos   +5 more
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Catholic refuge and the printing press: Catholic exiles from England, France and the Low Countries in the ecclesiastical province of Cambrai

British Catholic History, 2019
The Ecclesiastical Province of Cambrai may sound unfamiliar to modern readers. The bishopric of Cambrai dates to the sixth century but only became an archdiocese and, consequently, the centre of a church province in the sixteenth century.
Alexander Soetaert
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Women and Reformation in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries

Early Modern Low Countries
The history of women and their experiences of Reformation in the sixteenth-century Low Countries remains largely unexplored territory, especially compared to the rest of Europe and to the seventeenth century. Why this is the case is something of a puzzle,
Christine Kooi
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Women and Artistic Production in the Long Seventeenth Century in the Low Countries

Early Modern Low Countries
The importance of the role of women as artists has been recognised and rightly continues to be researched. However, although there are exceptions, the scholarship that has been produced over the past two decades does not sufficiently challenge ...
Catherine Powell-Warren
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Songs of Sodom: Singing About the Unmentionable Vice in the Early Modern Low Countries

Journal of Homosexuality, 2018
Although sodomy was purportedly an “unmentionable vice” in the early modern period, popular songs from the Low Countries paint a different picture. Bringing musical sources to bear upon the subject adds an extra dimension to the now widely held view that
Jonas Roelens
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Plague and Epidemic Disease in the Northern Parts of the Low Countries, 1349-1450

TSEG - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History
This article reviews what we know about plague and other epidemic diseases in the northern Low Countries before 1450 – the evidence, its limitations, and its implications. I make three observations.
D. Curtis
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Systematic review and meta-analysis: Prevalence of hypertension among adolescents in the Arab countries.

Journal of pediatric nursing, 2022
PROBLEM Hypertension (HTN) is one of the non-communicable whose prevalence is rising in both developed and developing countries. There is a scarcity of data on the prevalence of HTN in Arab countries.
Omar H. Almahmoud, D. Arabiat, M. Saleh
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