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School: Elizabeth Seton High School Bladendsburg
Contact: conradannee@yahoo.com
Date: 4-6-2001
I have mentioned Father Damien once or twice. I am a huge fan of Eddy Merckx, but he doesn't come up in class.
Best regards,
Conrad Annee Elizabeth Seton High School Bladendsburg, MD usa
School: Saint Mary's High Annapolis
Contact: Karen Meyers
Date: 4-10-2001
Our world history books give about one
line to Ockeghem, Mercator
and Vesalius; several lines are given to Breughel,
Rubens and van Eyck and most have a picture of Brueghals Wedding Dance
and van Eykes Marriage of Ar. I teach Horta, Memling
and Rubens in an art history class but they are
never mentioned in our text books....nor are any of the other people you listed.
Hope this is helpful.
Karen Meyers
St. Mary's High School, Annapolis, MD US
School: The Harbour School Baltimore
Contact: The Harbour School - Baltimore campus
Date: 4-10-2001
Our school is a small school that teaches severely learning disabled students of all ages. We do not have specific history textbooks.
To answer your question, I looked at the history textbook that I used 25 years ago when I went to college in Williamsburg, Virginia. The book is titled "Western Civilization" edited by William L. Langer, 1968.
This book mentions several of your people:
Andreas Vesalius is mentioned briefly as important with anatomy, with one of his drawings.
A painting "The Harvesters" by Peter Breughel is shown. "No artist left a more accurate or candid record of the common man of his time".
A painting by Rubens is shown. "In a work commissioned by the Jesuits, Rubens showed Loyola preaching exorcism of demons from the afflicted."
"...a group of Catholics called Jansenists who maintained an Augustinian doctrine of grace in opposition to the Jesuits."
"The brothers Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden...represent a break with artistic tradition that is symptomatic of the winds of changes lowing in the fifteenth centruy. Instead of chivalric renderings of damsels in distress, as in the fourteenth-century English manuscript decoration above, these artists were recording realistically the rapidly changing world around them. They were very much individuals, their genius recognized and bid for by contemporaries."
Several pages are devoted to Flemish artists Van Eyck, Bosch, Durer, Breghel and Holbein.
Flanders itself is cited many times:
Textile centers of Flanders
The great towns of Flanders, Ypres, Bruges, Ghent, revolts against the Count of flanders... new Burgundian state... Ghent revolted against the duke of burgundy
Disorder endemic in the Low Countries: the particularism of Flanders, Brabant, Holland, and the other territories, each with its own independent institutions, its own history, and as a part of that history a tradition of armed hostility to one or more of the other Low Countries. Philip the good.
Dynastic principle in Flanders
Flanders in the Hundred Years War
Trade with Flanders
Wool of Flanders
That's all I can find in the time I can devote to your subject. I wish you good luck in your research.
Linda Eisenhart, THE HARBOUR SCHOOL