by Hendrik Conscience · Legare Street Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9781020148514
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«Jacob Van Artevelde» is the historical novel by Hendrik Conscience, published by Legare Street Press in hardback (494 pages, in Dutch).
The narrative is set in 14th-century Flanders and follows Jacob van Artevelde, a Flemish statesman and merchant who played a prominent role in the tensions between England, France and the Low Countries during the Hundred Years' War. It portrays late medieval life and the intrigues of the powerful that affect ordinary people.
The novel was originally published in 1849; this Legare Street Press edition is from 2023 and contains the text in Dutch.
It will be of interest to readers of historical fiction, particularly those seeking episodes of the European Middle Ages and the history of Flanders.
Henri (Hendrik) Conscience was a Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, The Lion of Flanders (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.
