https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/maps/2025/06/12/leo-belgicus/

I have no great knowledge of cartography, but I nearly always find maps interesting.

#Maps #Art #Cartography #LowCountries #LeoBelgicus #Netherlands #Flanders #17thCentury #EarlyModern #History

"For this book Coomans spend countless hours exploring records and archives and the result is a book full of often small, personal stories that introduce us to people long gone, names we would never have known if they at one time had not gotten into trouble with the law or had to apply for a permit. But the book also mercilessly destroys those old myths about those dirty middle ages. Well, at least in the low countries.

And even though I, as a Dutch person, rather like the idea that we were somehow special and cleaner than everyone else in Medieval Europe, what this book mentions actually fits what we know about how things were in many other countries and regions."

https://fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/08/17/book-review-community-urban-health-and-environment-in-the-late-medieval-low-countries-by-janna-coomans/

@histodons @bookstodon #MedievalHistory #hygiene #TheDarkAgesDontExist #FakeHistoryHunter #LowCountries #geschiedenis

🧬 **Largest-ever ancient DNA study on a medieval cemetery reveals 1,000 years of genetic history in the Low Countries**

“_Remarkably, it also uncovered the first direct evidence of the plague in medieval Flanders, at a time when no written sources from the town make mention of the disease._”

🔗 https://nieuws.kuleuven.be/en/content/2025/largest-ever-ancient-dna-study-on-a-medieval-cemetery-reveals-1-000-years-of-genetic-history-in-the-low-countries.

#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Research #News #Ancient #DNA #Palaeogenomics #LowCountries #Medieval #Migration #Plague #Flanders @archaeodons

the modern dedication to pretending the weather doesn't exist makes me sad.

'but what if it rains?'

then you get wet. welcome to the #LowCountries.

'but what if the weather is so so so bad that it's not safe to be outside?'

then you stay indoors, and ponder why #capitalism wants you to commute through a deadly tempest.

#BanCars #cycling #AntiCapitalism

"While the genre paintings of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Jan Steen are forever relegated to the 1600s, Bruegel and Avercamp painted views that, until recently, remained a common sight in every Dutch and Belgian village."

Low Country Climate Canvasses of Little Ice Age

https://daily.jstor.org/climate-canvasses-of-the-little-ice-age/ via JSTOR Daily
Original image: Hendrick Avercamp, "Winter Landscape with Skaters near a Town" via PubHist
#LittleIceAge #Art #Renaissance #LowCountries #LowCountry #Climate #Winter

We (Yannick and me) did a podcast (in #Dutch) on our book on the #prehistory of the #LowCountries. It turned out very nice.

#palaeolithic #archaeology
https://youtu.be/5_Xc_iTEQZA