The Lion of Flandres
the Lion of Flandres is a Historical novel of the Belgian writer Dutch-speaking Hendrik Conscience (1812-1883) published in 1838.
It recalls the battles of the gold Spurs (or battles of Courtrai).
This novel presents many similarities with Ivanhoé of Walter Scott, in particular the manner of depicting the social groups, or the absence of true acting hero only: it is a team or a group which gains with two or three leaders.
This book constitutes for some a revalorization of the Flemish against the French, however they are the future Belgians against the French; doesn't one see the Namurian ones coming to lend strong hand to the courtraisiens in spite of the difference in language?
The interest of this book is to show that the Flanders was the Venice North, which attracted the covetousness of Philippe Beautiful the.
the Lion of Flandres was translated into French rather quickly. It is interesting to note that there exist several Dutch versions: indeed the orthography changed and certain words are less relevant. Thus there be rewritings in order to make the text more understandable to the contemporary reader.
In the original edition, the novel is preceded by a kind of report/ratio or inventory of fixtures of the Flemings at the 19th century.
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