Antwerp: References & Edit History

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The economic history of the city is discussed by Herman Van Der Wee, The Growth of the Antwerp Market and the European Economy (Fourteenth–Sixteenth Centuries), 3 vol. (1963). F. Suykens et al., Antwerp, a Port for All Seasons, trans. from Flemish (1986), gives the history of the harbour. Intellectual and cultural history is detailed in several books, among them Theodore L. De Vinne, The Plantin-Moretus Museum: A Printer’s Paradise (1929); John J. Murray, Antwerp in the Age of Plantin and Brueghel (1970); Antwerp’s Golden Age: The Metropolis of the West in the 16th and 17th Centuries (1973?), an exhibition catalog with a large bibliography; and Léon Voet, Antwerp, the Golden Age: The Rise and Glory of the Metropolis in the Sixteenth Century (1973; originally published in Dutch, 1973). Julien Weverbergh (ed.), Museumgids voor Antwerpen (1988), is a directory of Antwerp’s museums.

Studies of Antwerp’s history include Wilfrid C. Robinson, Antwerp: An Historical Sketch (1904); Jervis Wegg, Antwerp, 1477–1559, from the Battle of Nancy to the Treaty of Cateau Cambrésis (1916), with a good bibliography, and The Decline of Antwerp Under Philip of Spain (1924, reprinted 1979); and Jan Van Acker, Antwerpen: van Romeins veer tot wereldhaven (1975).

Jan L.R. Van Roey Tilde A. Sankovitch

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