The Low Countries. Jaargang 21

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The Unbearable Lightness of Borders Luc Devoldere | Chief Editor

Shifting Frontiers The Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and its Consequences [Ludo Milis]

Language Border [Geert van Istendael]

A Country Divided Of Old and New Boundaries [Cyrille Offermans]

Germania, Romanitas and Belgitude Borders and Border Issues [Joep Leerssen]

Stranded on the Border of the Promised Land Ostend's Transit Migration Problem [Tom Christiaens]

Along the Limes The Frontier of the Imperium Romanum in the Netherlands [Luc Devoldere]

Towards a Diploma Democracy? The Gulf between the Population and the New Regents [Marc Hooghe]

The Ghent Altarpiece Early Netherlandish, Flemish, French, German and Belgian [Wessel Krul]

Martinus Nijhoff & Joseph Brodsky ‘Harbingers of the Future’ [Anneke Reitsma]

Tapestries and Racing Cyclists Oudenaarde - a Small Town with a Big History [Dirk van Assche]

Down and Dirty in Sheffield [Abdelkader Benali]

‘Bought by Judgement of the Eye’ Dutch Theatre Looks at the State of the World [Jos Nijhof]

Anna Bijns (1493-1575) A Poetess in Antwerp [Herman Pleij]

Refrains By Anna Bijns

Building an Open Horizon The Vision and Work of Landscape Architect Adriaan Geuze [Jan-Hendrik Bakker]

‘I Continue Where the Text Ends’ The Wondrous World of Illustrator Carll Cneut [Annemie Leysen]

I Found a Form Hubert Van Herreweghen: Seventy Years a Poet [Piet Gerbrandy]

Six Poems By Hubert Van Herreweghen

Dreams and Achievements Theo Jansen's Beach Creatures [Bart van der Straeten]

‘Deeper, Deeper, to the Bottom, Paula’ The Prose of Mensje van Keulen [Jeroen Vullings]

Two Stories By Mensje van Keulen

‘The Paint is the Message’ The Physical Painting of Sam Dillemans [Eric Rinckhout]

‘In the Silence between Words Hides a Little Poem’ The Fascinating Sound Universe of Spinvis [Dirk Steenhaut]

Jozef and Isaac Israëls Realist and Impressionist Painting [Merel van den Nieuwenhof]

The Establishment of the Orange Monarchy in 1813-1815 A National Myth [Matthijs Lok]

The Underbelly of the New Century On the Remarkable Novel of Manners Bonita Avenue [Mark Cloostermans]

An Extract from Bonita Avenue By Peter Buwalda

From Bruges to Amsterdam The Roots of Stock Exchange Trading in the Low Countries [Lodewijk Petram]

Drawing the Line The Serious Art of Joost Swarte & Ever Meulen [Derek Blyth]

Writer in the Public Debate On Stefan Hertmans [Anne Marie Musschoot]

An Extract from Intercities By Stefan Hertmans

Two Poems By Stefan Hertmans

Mastering the Brush like a Singer his Voice On Jean Brusselmans, the Painter [Jef Lambrecht]

What's in a Name? Changing Labels for the Dutch Language [Roel Vismans]

Chronicle Architecture The ‘Primal Feel of Nature’ The Gardens of Piet Oudolf

Film and Theatre A Finger on the Pulse The Choreographer Meg Stuart

Exception or Rule? The International Rise of Dutch Children's Films

History In Flanders Fields Museum Revisited

Versatile Uniformity The Life of Jacob Revius (1586-1658)

Gruuthuse Manuscript Back in Bruges

Jan Frans Gratiaen Michael Ondaatje's Ancestor from Flanders

Literature Green Pastures Rutger Kopland (1934-2012)

A Cutting Critic Gerrit Komrij (1944-2012)

Leonard Nolens Winner of the Dutch Literature Prize

Retranslating Couperus

Music An Alto under a Mop of Hair The Success of Selah Sue

Radiant with Soul and Inner Fervour Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921)

Politics Elections in the Netherlands Blue And Red Join Forces

The 2012 Local and Provincial Elections in Flanders

Science Society on the Couch Psychoanalyst Paul Verhaeghe's Cultural Criticism

Leo Kouwenhovens Majorana Particles

Society Between Ghent, Geneva And Kenya Marleen Temmerman

Visual Arts The Rijksmuseum Finally Opens Its Doors Again

Back on the Map The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Pieter Bruegel the Elder in the Limelight Again

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