. A mediaeval princess : being a true record of the changing fortunes which brought divers titles to Jacqueline, Countess of Holland, together with an account of her conflict with Philip, Duke of Burgundy (1401-1436) . ated his grants and hadno hesitation in employing there the sameautocratic methods to which other portions ofhis domain were accustomed. But the factof their sometime possession of privilegeswas never forgotten by the the later issue was made betweenthe overlord and the cities, the demandwas not for novel and unknown liberties butfor their former charters. A gold
. A mediaeval princess : being a true record of the changing fortunes which brought divers titles to Jacqueline, Countess of Holland, together with an account of her conflict with Philip, Duke of Burgundy (1401-1436) . ated his grants and hadno hesitation in employing there the sameautocratic methods to which other portions ofhis domain were accustomed. But the factof their sometime possession of privilegeswas never forgotten by the the later issue was made betweenthe overlord and the cities, the demandwas not for novel and unknown liberties butfor their former charters. A golden era ofcivic individuality was set up as a standardwhose brief and shadowy existence wasfondly cherished. It must be remembered that under theCounts of Holland, the provinces werefeudal estates, allied only because the head-ship happened to be vested in one hand welded the separate and 3H a flDe&i^val prlncees incongruous parts together and forced themto be members of one body—a Burgundianstate. Under the outward unity, burgherlife grew in the communities, that obeyedbut still held tenaciously to a latent spark ofindependence, to a national spirit, typifiedby the last Daughter of BIBLIOGRAPHY The sources for general Netherland history in the fifteenthcenttiry, and later works based thereon, are discussed byProf. P. J. Blok, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandsche, Volk. II.,Aanhangsel; English version, A History of the People ofthe Netherlands, ii., pp. 389-406 (New York, 1899), See alsoEene Hollandsche Stad in de Middeleeuwen, by the sameauthor (sGravenhage, 1883). For a closer study of the period, the best basis is the chap-ter on sources in Jakobda und Ihre Zeit. Franz von , 2 vols., 1867. I., pp. 403-430. In his own narrative Loher is somewhat sentimental, butin his investigation of historical material his industry hasbeen extraordinary. His list of sources must, however, besupplemented for all publications later than 1867, and manydo
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