Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
Chapter 8
THE CATHEDRAL OF TOURNAI 88 Religious spirit of Belgium in the Middle Ages--The Romanesque churches--Introduction of Gothic; Period of transition, early Gothic, secondary period, third period--French and Flemish languages during the Middle Ages--Picard writers in Walloon Flanders--First translations and chronicles in French--Origin of Flemish letters, Willem's _Reinaert_, Van Maerlant.