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Exploring art, faith, economy and politics of the 16th-century Low Countries and their global surroundings.
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The beer of the Yuste monastery, Legado de Yuste, is now made by Heineken, with the help of the foundation Cruzcampo. But based on the recipe of the Flemish master brewer who came with King Carlos I of Spain. Still, Heineken that brews abbey beer … 🤨
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But what he missed even more was his favorite drink. He had “Mechelschen Bruynen” or “Mechelen Brown” imported from his native Flanders. He immediately followed this up by summoning the Flemish brewer Hendrik van der Trehen to commission a brewery in the Juste monastery.
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He had a complex relationship with his birthplace (or viceversa), punishing them hard after - yet, another - revolt. But after his retirement to the monastery at Yuste in Spain, he was nostalgic for Flemish cuisine, and Waterzooi, a traditional dish from Ghent, in particular.
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The monastery and church were set on fire by the Calvinists in 1566 and 1567.
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At 3 o'clock in the morning the prince brought two companies of servants to turn the crowd of people, and called for workers to extinguish the fire, and promised to pay those who were willing. But their houses were mostly burned, but without extinguishing the principal church would have caught fire.
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And the tower burned down completely, and the roof of the church or choir on which it stood, and the monks were screaming, because no one brought water, everyone said: 'Let the brothel burn', and the gentlemen left the fire and had all the city's soldiers called without a drum…
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So the tower was in a blazing fire and they found the monastery gates still closed, so that the monks knew nothing about it: but they opened them and found the monks drunk and some asleep and the table still laid, and good wine on it and good meat cooked and roasted and capers, and also three whores
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Wel, Philips II smeekte hem om aan te blijven als zijn arts in Valladolid, en gaf hem bij zijn vertrek een gouden ketting voor zijn verdiensten. Ik denk dat die “geleerden” die hem niet persoonlijk kenden en hem later afrekenden voor zijn Origines, zijn gevoel voor humor en zelrelativering misten ;)
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“…Ladron, the commander of the Germans, showed the young prince all kindness in Antwerp, but whatever was done to him, he was always sad, not knowing how they would treat him in Spain: but the king was his godfather…”
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We kijken er naar uit. Ik vond net deze mooie afbeelding van het “Hof van Brabant”, vanuit een uitzonderlijk oogpunt, uit de 17de eeuw.
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“…Ladron overste der Duytschen liet tot Antwerpen den jongen prinsche alle aerdicheyt sien, maer wat men hem dede, hy was altoos treurich, niet wetende hoe men in Spaengien met hem handelen sou: maer de conick was syn peter…”
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“…ende 't is wonder dat den prinsche synen sone niet mede en nam; maer die van Loven hebben sulcken previlegien, dat niemant daer geen klercken en mach uythalen sonder wille van die van Loven, maer Ducdalbe en paste op geen rechten noch previlegien.”
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“…om den conick te dienen, soo men seyde, maer 't was om (hem) daer eeuwich te houden en geen residentie en sou hebben hier in 't landt. Ende was een jongelinck van 14 oft 15 jaeren, en lach tot Loven ter scolen…”
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The Bishop of Antwerp was titular abbot of the abbey for some time. The current episcopal palace on the Schoenmarkt in Antwerp was a refuge house of the abbey
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In 1578, Calvinists seized the Abbey of Hemiksem, expelling its monks and halting its role in Antwerp’s economy. After the Spanish reconquest (1585), the abbey was restored, resuming its influence in trade, construction, and agriculture.
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“Tss, isn't that one of ours too?” (Quinten Massys – The Tax Collectors - aka Allegory of Avarice, 1525-1530)
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Some info there: The first Edition of Thomas More’s Utopia in Louvain, its Printer Dirk Martens and the Erasmian Network in Early Modern Europe: Exploring the Role of a Humanist Network in a Printing House in the Low Countries. Paper available in #OA hdl.handle.net/2268/222653
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About a century later Christophe Plantin (c. 1520–1589) further professionalised printing. His printing house, Officina Plantiniana, became one of the most important centers of Renaissance and Counter-Reformation printing. His most famous publication is the polyglot bible.
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More info on him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_He...