nists, and carried offby picture-dealers of all nations. Ghent, Louvain, Mechlin, Ypres, and several otherneighbouring towns, were vast manufacturing centres.Louvain could muster 150,000 men, amongst whomno fewer than 4000 were master weavers employingfrom thirty to forty hands. The suburbs of the… … < KH -)W IdD Oc/: GUILD SYSTEM AND ITS EFFECT UPON ART. 61 surging crowd that hurried forth rendered the streetsimpassable. Life in such towns flowed in no gentlecurrent. It was impassioned. Civic feeling was in-tense. The token of a towns freedom and individualitywas the belfry tower. Many of…
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![An illustration from Cherry & Violet, a tale of the Great Plague. By the author of “Mary Powell” [i.e. Anne Manning] (1897)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/bl-bl_000678433_0-119-1.webp)