Dutch literature - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Earliest Stages 800–1550
For the earliest stages of the Dutch language (and so its literature), the boundaries with what is now considered German are vague, and s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Belgium: Encyclopedia - Culture Of Belgium
A discussion of Belgian culture requires discussing both those aspects of cultural life shared by 'all' or most of the Belgians, regardle...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Belgium - Art
Culture of Belgium - Museums. Belgium has a large variety of museums and temporary expositions. Some of the most impressive museums in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Geographic Distribution
Dutch is spoken by most inhabitants of the Netherlands. It is also spoken by most in the Flemish northern half of Belgium, with the excep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Geographic Distribution
Dutch is spoken by most inhabitants of the Netherlands. It is also spoken by most in the Flemish northern half of Belgium, with the excep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Grammar
Like all other continental West Germanic languages, Dutch has a word order that is markedly different from English, which presents a prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Classification And Related Languages
Dutch is a Germanic language, and within this family it is a West Germanic language. Since it did not experience the High German consonan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Belgium - Sport
The most popular sport in Belgium is football (soccer). The Belgian First Division is one of the older leagues in the world. Belgium used...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Curaçao: Encyclopedia - Curaçao
Curaçao (pronounced [kura'são]) is an island in the southern part of the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. The isle is the larg...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Belgium - Gastronomy
Good cooking and fine beers are seen by many as part of Belgian culture. The beer with the most prestige is that of the Trappist monks. T...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Writing System
Dutch is written using the Latin alphabet, see Dutch alphabet. The diaeresis is used to mark vowels that are pronounced separately, and c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Sounds
Dutch language - Vowels. The vowel inventory of Dutch is large, with 14 simple vowels and four diphthongs. The vowels /eː/, /øː/, /o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Grammar
Like all other continental West Germanic languages, Dutch has a word order that is markedly different from English, which presents a prob...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - History
The West Germanic dialects can be divided according to tribe (Frisian, Saxon, Franconian, Bavarian and Swabian), and according to the ext...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Writing System
Dutch is written using the Latin alphabet, see Dutch alphabet. The diaeresis is used to mark vowels that are pronounced separately, and c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Sounds
Dutch language - Vowels. The vowel inventory of Dutch is large, with 14 simple vowels and four diphthongs. The vowels /eː/, /øː/, /o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culture Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - Culture Of Belgium - Folklore
Festivals play a major role in Belgium's cultural life. Nearly every city and town has its own festival, some that date back several cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Language - Dutch As A Foreign Language
The number of non native speakers of Dutch who voluntarily learn the language is small. This is partly because Dutch is not geographicall...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Curaçao: Encyclopedia Ii - Curaçao - History
The original inhabitants of Curaçao were Arawak Amerindians. The first Europeans to sight the island were the members of a Spanish exped...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Struggle For Independence And The Golden Age
History of the Netherlands - Eighty Years' War. For details, see the main Eighty Years' War article. Through inheritance and conquest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Literature - Types Of Writing
Medieval literature - Religious. As shown in the chart to the right, theological works were the dominant form of literature typically f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Batavian Republic And French Rule
Against this background it is less surprising that, after the French Revolution, when Napoleon invaded and occupied the Netherlands in 17...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Monarchy
After the Napoleonic era the Netherlands were put back on the map of Europe. The country had always been part of the precarious balance o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - 20th Century
Although its army mobilised when World War I broke out in August 1914, the Netherlands remained a neutral country. The German invasion of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Literature - Languages
Since Latin was the language of the Catholic Church, which dominated Western and Central Europe, and since the Church was virtually the o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Curaçao: Encyclopedia Ii - Curaçao - Language
Main article: Language in Curaçao The origins of the name Curaçao is still under debate, but one explanation is that it is derived from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Burgundian Period
Most of what is now the Netherlands and Belgium was eventually united by the Duke of Burgundy in 1433. Before the Burgundian union, the D...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Pre-history Era
The Netherlands have been inhabited since the last ice age; the oldest remnants that have been found are a hundred thousand years old. Du...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Curaçao: Encyclopedia Ii - Curaçao - Language
Main article: Language in Curaçao The origins of the name Curaçao is still under debate, but one explanation is that it is derived from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Roman Era
After Julius Caesar conquered Gaul, he conquered Belgium and The Netherlands around the year 58 BC, which made it the northern border of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Netherlands: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Netherlands - Holy Roman Empire
The newcomers merged with the original inhabitants to create three peoples in the Low Countries: the Frisians along the coast, the Saxons...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - The Twentieth Century
As in the rest of Europe, in the Netherlands the nineteenth century carried on unchanged until the events of World War I (1914–1918) ch...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - The Nineteenth Century
Against this backdrop, the most prominent writer was Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831), a highly intellectual and intelligent but also ecce...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Renaissance And The Golden Age 1550–1670
Main article: Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature The first ripples of the Reformation appeared in Dutch literature in a collecti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dutch Literature: Encyclopedia Ii - Dutch Literature - Decline 1670–1795
Unlike English literature, where the Augustan period and the Age of Enlightenment sustained the high level of the Jacobean age, eighteent...   » Read the article