‎Nouveau manuel complet du serrurier ou traite complet et simplifie de cet art - Ouvrage accompagne d'un atas de 16 planches ‎

‎ 1916. Paris, Roret, 1916. 2 volumes in-18°, format 10x15 cm et 11x16 cm, broche, 496 pages et 16 planches. Bon etat. ‎

‎"Collection de manuels formant une encyclopedie des sciences et des arts". ‎

‎Les Rothschild, B tisseurs et M c nes‎

‎, Flammarion,, 1995 Couverture reliee sous jaquette, 383 pages, Texte en Francais, Illustrations en couleurs en noir & blanc nombreuses illustrations dans et hors texte. Bon etat. ISBN 9782080129680.‎

‎Les Rothschild, B tisseurs et M c nes‎

‎S. PONTII MEROPII PAULINI NOLANI EPISCOPI OPERA. Digesta in II tomos, secundum ordinem temporum nunc primum disposita, et ad manuscriptos codices Gallicanos, Italico, Anglicanos, Belgicos, atque ad editiones antiquiores emendata & aucta... Tomus 1-2 ‎

‎Parisiis ( Paris ) Apud Joannem Couterot & Ludovicum Guerin 1685 in 4 (25,5x19,5) les 2 tomes reliés en 1 volume reliure plein veau fauve de l'époque, dos à nerfs orné, caissons dorés, pièce de titre de cuir beige, restauration ancienne sur un mors. Tome 1: 8 pages, 324 pages, 190 pages. Tome 2: 148 pages, 239 pages. Saint Paulin de Nola, 353-431. Bon exemplaire ( Photographies sur demande / We can send pictures of this book on simple request ) ‎

‎Bon Couverture rigide ‎

‎Academie Nationale des sciences , Belles Lettres Arts de Bordeaux Regrads sur le passé (1818-1972)‎

‎Hotel des sociétés savantes. 1987. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 78p, illustré de photos noir et blanc.. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎"Envoi 'A Paulian"", Vatar de Jouannet, Duboul, Fargue, Labat, Sèze, Ardouin,Welles. Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES"‎

‎L'HOMME QUI COURAIT APRES SON ETOILE‎

‎EDITIONS ODILE JACOB. 1998. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 272 Pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎The prints of Paul Klee, sheets with facsimile printing forty lithographs and etchings by Paul Klee‎

‎Antwerp, MoMa, 2013 Bound Size: 32 x 24 cm. Size: brochure 32 pp. + 40 plates. in luxurious slipcase - case. Texts - in ENGLISH - are set from Elizabeth and New Caledonia. Numbered: 1-500. *** Brandnew in original box and still in cellophane. ISBN 9789491819001.‎

‎Paul Klee (1879-1940) was een uitzonderlijk schilder, tekenaar, graficus, leraar en theoreticus die een beslissende invloed heeft gehad op de ontwikkeling van de kunst in de vorige eeuw. Vooral in zijn grafisch werk is goed te zien hoe zich van de traditie losmaakte en een van de grote vernieuwers van de moderne kunst werd. Deze portfolio werd voor het eerst in 1945 gepubliceerd door de uitgever & kunsthandelaar Curt Valentin en werd vervolgens, twee jaar later, heruitgegeven door het MoMa (New York). De publicatie bestond uit losse platen met facsimile afdrukken van veertig lithografieen en etsen van Paul Klee en was vergezeld van een brochure met een inleidende tekst van James Thrall Soby, Trustee van het MoMa en voormalig afdelingshoofd van het departement Sculptuur en Beeldhouwkunst. In 1947 maakten reeds dertig van de veertig gepubliceerde prenten deel uit van de grafische collectie van het museum. Voor deze nieuwe heruitgave (de derde) zijn alle veertig werken van Paul Klee opnieuw gefotografeerd en gedigitaliseerd - acht zijn in kleur. Speciaal voor deze editie heeft de huidige hoofdconservator van de afdeling Prints and Illustrated Books van het MoMa, Christophe Cherix, een nieuwe inleiding geschreven (Soby's essay werd eveneens behouden) en zijn alle onderschriften gecorrigeerd en vervolledigd. De facsimiles zijn gedrukt op 160 grams papier. Editie bestaat uit een brochure met teksten van Christophe Cherix en James Thrall Soby en 40 platen gedrukt op Magnani Pura Cellulosa 160 g, in een groen linnen doos met zwart lint. Oplage: 500 exemplaren originele prijs; 220.00 euro Paul Klee (1879-1940) was an exceptional painter, draftsman, printmaker, teacher and theorist who has had a decisive influence on the development of art in the last century. Especially in his graphic work is good to see how loosened itself from tradition and became one of the great innovators of modern art. This portfolio was first published in 1945 by the publisher and art dealer Curt Valentin and then, two years later, reissued by the MoMA (New York). The publication consisted of loose sheets with facsimile printing forty lithographs and etchings by Paul Klee and was accompanied by a booklet with an introduction by James Thrall Soby, Trustee of the MoMa and former head of the Department of Sculpture and Sculpture. In 1947 were already thirty of the forty published prints part of the graphic collection of the museum. For this new reissue (the third) are all forty works by Paul Klee re-photographed and digitized - eight are in color. For this special edition, the current chief curator of the Department of Prints and Illustrated Books at MoMA, Christophe Cherix written a new introduction (Soby's essay was also retained) and all captions corrected and completed. The reproductions are printed on 160 gram paper. Edition includes a booklet with texts by Christophe James Thrall Soby Cherix and 40 plates printed on Magnani Pura Cellulosa 160g, in a green linen box with black ribbon. Circulation: 500 copies original price; 220.00 euros + Still in Original publisher's shrink wrap !!! ‎

‎bladen voor de grafiek nr.2 jrg 5 - MONIEK GHEYSENS‎

‎, Brugge, 1972., In suite, originele uitgeversomslag, 21,5x28cm, z.p., geillustreerd met 10 originele houtsneden.‎

‎MONIEK GHEYSENS De bladen voor de grafiek nr.2 jrg.5‎

‎Cahiers de l'Université Libre N°3 - Hommage à Paul LANGEVIN.‎

‎ P., Union Française Universitaire, (1945), petit in 8° broché, 72 pages ; couverture poussièreuse. ‎

‎Illustré d'un portrait et de deux photographies. PHOTOS sur DEMANDE. ...................... Photos sur demande ..........................‎

‎NOTICE SUR LA VIE ET L'OEUVRE DE PIERRE JOLIBOIS (1884 - 1954), Membre de la Section de Chimie, lue en la séance du 8 mars 1954‎

‎ 1954 Institut de France, Paris, 1954. Un volume in 4° broché, sous couverture verte à la Minerve, 10 pages, bon état.‎

‎ Remises possibles sur les achats en lot, achetez plusieurs objets à la fois ! Reçoit sur rendez-vous pour consultation des ouvrages.‎

‎Stories of the mountain and the forest.‎

‎London, Nelson, 1882, sm. in-8°, 340 p. + 6 ll. publisher's publicity + 9 engraved plates, hw. dedication on fly-leaf ‘Cyril Bond French Prize 1st Class July 1882’ / ex libris Peter E. Obergfell, original ill. blue cloth, spine darkened, first cover with gilt ‘Chamois’, corners bumped, nice copy.‎

‎A book mainly on the Alps. Contents on Yaks and ponies in the Himalayas, hunting, walking and climbing in the Alps, all gathered by the author from ‘fascinating books on travel, adventures and sports’. The engraved plates show: Yak-travelling in the Himalaya / Chamois-Hunting / Goats and goat-herd in the alps / the herd of deer / Felling and floating timber in the Alps / The Capercailzie (or Cock of the wood) / Catching turtle / The Matterhorn / The Wetterhorn from Grindelwald. Not in Perret or Neate; Giorgio & Gattlen: il Cervino, N° 70 (engraving from 1865 after a photogr, our view is recut, but very similar). Image disp.‎

‎Voyage fait en M. DCCXIV, &c., par ordre de Louis XIV. Dans la Turquie, l'Asie, Sourie, Palestine, Haute et Basse Egypte, &c. Où l'on trouvera des remarques très-curieuses, comparées à ce qu'ont dit les Anciens sur le Labyrinthe d'Egypte ; un grand nombre d'autres monumens de l'Antiquité, dont il a fait la découverte ; une description du gouvernement, des forces, de la religion, de la politique & de l'état présent des Turcs ; une relation de leurs préparatifs faits pour la dernière guerre contre l'Empereur, & un parallèle des coûtumes modernes des Egyptiens avec les anciennes, &c‎

‎Steenhouwer, Josua (16..-17.. ; libraire) Uytwerf, Hermanus (1698-1754) | Amsterdam 1720 | 10 x 16.8 cm | 2 volumes reliés‎

‎ Deuxième édition du troisième voyage de Lucas effectué au Proche-Orient entre 1714 et 1717 (la première est de 1729) ; cf Gay, 2122. Chadenat, 5090. Atabey 734. Blackmer, 1038. Liconographie comprend 2 cartes dépliantes (Anatolie et pays voisins par de l'Isle ; Basse Egypte et cours du Nil par Lucas) et 32 planches hors texte : monuments, vues pittoresques, plans dédifices, objets archéologiques, inscriptions diverses, etc. Reliures en demi basane fauve, dos lisses ornés de triples filets dorés, dos tachés en têtes, quelques frottements, plats de papier marbré, tranches mouchetées, accidents sur les coupes du premier volume, reliures du XIXe. Agréable état intérieur. Daprès Brunet (III, 1204) le texte a été rédigé par l'abbé Banier. Militaire, naturaliste, collectionneur et marchand, Paul Lucas (Rouen, 1664 - Madrid, 1737) montra dès sa jeunesse un goût prononcé pour les voyages. Parti pour le Levant afin dy faire le commerce des pierres précieuses, il sengagea en 1688 dans larmée vénitienne et devint capitaine dun navire armé contre les Turcs. Revenu en France en 1696 avec une collection dantiquités et de monnaies quil vendit au Cabinet du Roi, il fut chargé par Louis XIV deffectuer des voyages qui devaient le rendre célèbre. De 1699 à 1703, il visita lEgypte, Chypre, la Perse et la Syrie. La seconde expédition se déroula de 1704 à 1708 en Grèce, Macédoine, Asie Mineure, Terre Sainte, Egypte et Lybie. En 1714, il fut chargé dune nouvelle mission dans le Levant : Il parcourut la Roumélie, la Thessalie, passa par Constantinople, puis Smyrne avant de visiter la Syrie, la Palestine et lEgypte. Parti du Caire, il fut de retour à Paris en décembre 1717. - Photographies et détails sur www.Edition-Originale.com -‎

‎C'EST QUOI, LA VIE ?‎

‎DU SIGNE. NON DATE. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 31 pages. Quelques photos en couleurs dans le texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 500-SCIENCES DE LA NATURE ET MATHEMATIQUES‎

‎Peter Greenaway / Artworks 63-99.‎

‎, Manchester University Press, 1998, softcover, 192 pages, Illustrated. oblong 24x21cm. Text in NL/ENG. ISBN 9789076686011.‎

‎Schilderen en tekenen hebben de voorbije 35 jaar een centrale plaats ingenomen in het oeuvre van Peter Greenaway. Zij waren essenti le onderdelen van een speculatief onderzoek dat hij uitvoert op een breed front, met o.m. productie van films, opera's en romans. Dit boek biedt een eerste ernstige studie van Greenaways grafisch werk en begeleidt een overzichtstentoonstelling van zijn werk georganiseerd door het Provinciebestuur van Oost-Vlaanderen. Het bevat een analyse van de sleutelthema's en -momenten in de carri re van de ongewone artiest, een uitvoerig interview, een uitvoerige referentielijst naar zijn ander werk, en bevat 115 afbeeldingen, waarvan 101 in kleur. || Painting and draughtsmanship have been central to Peter Greenaway's practice for the last thirty-five years. They have been essential parts of a speculative investigation carried on across a wide front along with the production of films, operas and novels. This book provides a serious study of Greenaway's artwork and is published to accompany the 1999 retrospective exhibition of his work organised by the Province of East Flanders. It contains an analysis of the key themes and moments in the artist's career, a lengthy interview with the artist, a full reference section and 115 illustrations, with 101 in colour. ‎

‎Précis D'HISTOIRE ANCIENNE ‎

‎ Broché - 17 x 22 - 351 pp - année 1962 - Editions Presses Universitaires de France - Cartes - ‎

‎Francois Augieras un barbare en occident‎

‎Pierre Fanlac 1988 In-8 broché sous jaquette 25 cm sur 17,6. 254 pages. Jaquette en bon état. Bon état d’occasion.‎

‎ Bon état d’occasion ‎

‎These are some stories‎

‎Antwerp, OctoberDesign, 2024 Hardcover, 42 pages, 24x18cm Illustrated with Color illustrations of Paul Popelier.‎

‎These are some stories is a book written and illustrated by Paul Popelier. It features a series of portraits of fictional and more or less remarkable people. Twenty texts, twenty images. Some describe a singular moment, others encompass a lifetime. Some can be read as metaphors, others are just singular observations. The project is inhabited by a peculiar bunch of characters, ranging from lighthearted to ridiculous, from happy to sad, from enigmatic to delusional, from boring to horny. ?Check out the previews underneath to get a better idea of what the hell we're talking about. These Are Some Stories is a personal project. A rather peculiar but charming book featuring portraits of twenty fictional and rather remarkable people, in both text and images. Nine of those are featured below. Say hi to Jenny, Otto, James, Connor, Wendy, Susan, Harry, Hugh, Bzzzzz, Juliette, Bob and Claire. Find out more and - why not ‎

‎Aue pavilions: Temporary buildings for Documenta IX - Paul Robbrecht / Hilde Daem‎

‎, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Ko?nig, 1994 softcover, 96 pages, Illustrated. 13x14.5 x1 cm;.‎

‎The Aue Pavilions housed the work of 28 artists at Documenta IX in Kassel, Germany, in June 13 to september 20 1992. At the end of the exhibition the pavilions were disassembled and reconstructed in Almere in the Netherlands. This miniature book records the pavilions, artist's work in situ and architectural drawings in b&w reproductions with a short introduction by the architects Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem; a rare book‎

‎La réforme catholique : Le combat de Maldonat (1534-1583)‎

‎Beauchesne 1997 525 pages 13 4x3 8x20 2cm. 1997. Broché. 525 pages.‎

4 Images

‎Très bon état de conservation intérieur propre‎

‎Mulhouse Au Xixeme Siecle - La Montée Du Catholicisme‎

‎Coprur 1992 1992.‎

‎1992. Deux dédicaces sur les premières pages dont une de Raymond Oberlé (voir photos). Livre relié couverture cartonnée. En stock. Vendeur PRO Français. N'hésitez pas me contacter pour toutes questions ou photos supplémentaires. Expédition rapide et soignée sous enveloppe cartonnée ou à bulles‎

‎Tr sors sacr s, tr sors cach s Patrimoine des glises de Seine-et-Marne‎

‎, Comit .d p. Patrimoine 1988, 1988 Paperback, 308 pages, Texte en Francais, 270 x 210 mm, bon etat, beaucoup illustrations, . ISBN 9782950307309.‎

‎Defence of the Faith. Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the Late Middle Ages‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 407 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:26 b/w, 3 tables b/w., Language(s):English, German. ISBN 9782503588827.‎

‎Summary This volume focuses on the complex and often overlooked topic of crusading activities and the crusade movement on the fringes of Latin Christendom in the time frame from approximately 1300 to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It covers a period widely considered as a time of significant political, cultural and religious changes in Europe. A period in which Western Christianity was on the one hand still expanding (vide Lithuania and the western Rus and later the Spanish, Portuguese, French and English expansion in the Americas, Africa and South-East Asia) and on the other hand facing two mighty opponents: the Ottoman Empire and Muscovy. On its eastern and southeastern frontiers, Latin Christian expansion came to a gradual halt???here, the West was now largely under siege! Alone the political, logistical and ultimately also military feasibility of a large-scale crusade to liberate Jerusalem had now receded into a purely theoretical and practically almost unenforceable far distance. Ranging in scope from the Baltic Sea region to the Balkans and Iberia, this book,s nineteen papers explore how these developments influenced the continuation and adaptation of crusading ideas and activities during this later period of crusades. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. Crusading on the Periphery in the Later Middle Ages: Key Research Issues and Debates Paul Srodecki Part I: Campaigning and Recruiting? Communication between Centre and Periphery in Fifteenth-Century Crusading Norman Housley Crusade Campaigning by Friars of the Observant Franciscan Establishment in the Holy Land Marianne P. Ritsema Van Eck Crusading and Military Orders in the Crowns of Aragon and Castile in the Late Middle Ages Maria Bonet Donato? Army Inspection and Crusade. Wallachia and the Crusade Plans of Pope Leo X Mihai-D. Grigore Part II: Chivalry and Nobility The Bohemo-Moravian Nobility and the Baltic Crusades of the Bohemian Kings Ottokar II Premislas and John of Luxemburg in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Dalibor Jani? How to Uphold a Dying Institution. English Support for the Teutonic Order,s Baltic Crusades in the Early Fifteenth Century Benj min Borb s Lithuanian Participation in the Crusading Movement in the Long Fifteenth Century Darius Baronas Part III: From Expansion to Defence The Crusade of Nicopolis and its Significance for the Western Image of the Ottoman Turks around 1400 Paul Srodecki Hungary and the passagium particulare after Nicopolis (1396-1437) Attila B rany The Last Crusades in the Balkans from 1443- 44 or the Union between Central and South- Eastern Europe against the Ottoman Invasion Nevyan Mitev Converting Heretics into Crusaders on the Fringes of Latin Christendom. Shifting Crusading Paradigms in Medieval Bosnia Emir O. Filipovi? Ziel oder Ausgangsort? Das Gro f rstentum Litauen als verl ngerter Arm der Kreuzzugsbewegung vom Ende des 14. bis zum Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts Rimvydas Petrauskas Fighting Pagans and Relations between Poland and the Teutonic Order after 1466 Adam Szweda Part IV: Legitimation and Propaganda Infideles et perfidi schismatici. Crusades and Christianisation as Political Tools of the Polish Kings in the Fourteenth Century Andrzej Marzec Against Tartari, Rutheni et Litfani, hostes fidei. The Role and Ambivalence of the Crusading Idea in the Integration of Ruthenia into the Polish Crown in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century Sven Jaros Playing the Crusade Card. Rhetorical References to Outremer and Iberian Crusades in the Conflict between the Teutonic Order and the Crown of Poland in the Early Fifteenth Century Paul Srodecki Zwischen Kreuzzugsrhetorik und B ndnissen. Die Ostpolitik des Gro f rsten Witold von Litauen (1392- 1430) Sergey V. Polekhov Legitimising the Hussite Wars. Anti-Heretical Crusading in the Fifteenth Century Pavel Soukup‎

‎Expansion of the Faith. Crusading on the Frontiers of Latin Christendom in the High Middle Ages‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 350 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:28 b/w, Language(s):English, German. ISBN 9782503588803.‎

‎Summary This volume offers a comparative approach to the crusade movement on the frontiers of Latin Christendom in the high Middle Ages, bringing a regional focus to research on these peripheral phenomena. It features several key questions: Which military campaigns were propagated as crusades on the peripheries of the Christian West? What efforts were made to gain recognition for them as crusades and what effects did these have? What value did the crusade movement have for societies at the fines christianitatis? What role did the cruciatae have in strengthening pan-Western sense of togetherness and solidarity, and what role did they have for creation of a crusader and frontier identity? The eighteen papers, ranging in scope from the southern and eastern Baltic regions to Iberia, Egypt and the Balkans, provide new insights into the ways in which crusade rhetoric was reflected in the culture and literature of countries involved in crusading beyond the Holy Land. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Contributors List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations A Note on Names Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Crusading on the Periphery in the High Middle Ages: Main Debates, New Approaches Paul Srodecki Part I - Adaptation and Rejection Why Did so few Crusaders from East-Central and Eastern Europe Participate in the Crusades to the Holy Land? Zdzis?aw Pentek The Periphery of Europe and the Idea of Crusade: Adaptation and Evolution of Crusader Ideology in Poland under the Piast Dynasty (1100-47) Darius von G ttner-Sporzy?ski Crusades and Crusading in High Medieval Dalmatia and Croatia ? Failed, Abused, Imaginary Neven Budak Part II - Conviction and Violence Burning of Idols ? Mission and Theology around the Baltic Sea Kurt Villads Jensen The Crusade Idea in the Areas of the North-Western Slavs around the Time of the Second Crusade Norbert Kersken A North German Prince on a Pilgrimage in Arms: Political Implications of the Livonian Crusade of Albert I, Duke of Saxony Kristjan Kaljusaar The Role Played by Bishop Bruno of Olomouc in the Prussian Crusades of the Bohemian King Ottokar II Premislas David Sychra Part III - Conquest and Expansion Die schwedischen Kreuzz ge nach Finnland aus der Ostsee-Perspektive Jens E. Olesen Ein folgenloser Kreuzzug? Die Herrschaftsbereiche Graf Adolfs II. von Schauenburg und des Abodritenf rsten Niklot nach dem Wendenkreuzzug von 1147 Martin Sch rrer The Conquest of the Island of Rugia, 1168/1169: A Danish Crusade? Oliver Auge The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212) in the Context of Ibero- Christian Conquests in al-Andalus: Myths and Models Luis Garc a-Guijarro Part IV - Catholicism and Orthodoxy Tearing Christ's Seamless Tunic? The 'Eastern Schism' and Crusades against the Greeks in the Thirteenth Century Nikolaos G. Chrissis Between Schism and Union: Rus Adversaries and Allies of the Crusaders in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries Anti Selart Part V - Legitimation and Propaganda Legitimising the Conquest of Egypt: The Frankish Campaign of 1163 Revisited Eric B hme Centrality of the Periphery in Crusade Rhetoric: The Afterlife of the Crusade of Andrew II of Hungary Nora Berend The Rhetoric of the Crusades and Anti-Paganism in the Political Propaganda of Ottokar II Premislas of Bohemia Robert Anton n Fighting the 'Eastern Plague': Anti-Mongol Crusade Ventures in the Thirteenth Century Paul Srodecki Index‎

‎Les Juifs avant le Messie.-‎

‎I. Développement politique et religieux du peuple juif. 2°édition. Bloud. 1905. In-8 br., couverture imprimée, 64pp. Petit manque au 2°plat sinon bon état.‎

‎Sans commentaire ? Une histoire de la Belgique a travers la caricature‎

‎, Le Cri / Pelckmans, 2011 Softcover, 227 pages, Texte en Francais, 305 x 290 x 25 mm, Tres belle exemplaire !!. ISBN 9782871065807.‎

‎Les caricatures politiques constituent une forme particuli re de journalisme. Telles des chroniques, elles commentent l?actualit . Mais leur langage visuel et souvent leur simplicit les rendent plus directs. Dans Sans paroles ? cinquante th mes majeurs de l'histoire belge sont illustr s travers une s lection r fl chie de plus de 400 dessins anim s. Chaque fois replac s dans leur contexte historique. Accompagn s de textes de synth se et de chronologies fluides, les nombreux dessins anim s racontent l'histoire de la Belgique. De l'ind pendance la mondialisation, de la Belgique unitaire la Belgique f d rale, de la formation de partis aux scandales politiques.‎

‎Backlit Heaven Power and Devotion in Archdiocese Mechelen‎

‎, , 2009 softcover; 280 pages illustr. ISBN 9789020982947.‎

‎What role did devotion play in the lives of our grandparents and their parents? How did the belief in sin, redemption and saints, influence their attitude towards life, belief, their body or sexuality? And how did this devotion translate into the most exotic cult objects? These and numerous other questions are being answered from an anthropological point of view in 6 essays that dare the reader to open up towards the religious spirit that characterised our western culture for centuries. Mechelen was proclaimed the Archdiocese of Mechelen in 1559. At the time the archdiocese covered most of the Low Countries (the southern part of the Netherlands, Belgium and part of northern France). To commemorate the 450th anniversary the city is holding a three month cultural festival entitled City Visions. The organisers want to focus on the role of Mechelen in the past, present and looking towards the future. This fascinating publication focuses on the history of the faith of ordinary people and the objects that expressed their beliefs.‎