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Franck 2019 Foreign Merchants and The Parish Local Commemoration As A Part of The Integration Process in Late Medieval by freya.vgoethem is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This paper explores the relationship between foreign merchants and the parish in late medieval Bruges, challenging the notion that these merchants relied solely on friaries for their religious needs. It highlights how individual endowments to the parish by merchants from different nations, particularly the German Hanse, Italian city-states, and the Spanish peninsula, facilitated their integration into the local community. The study emphasizes that these endowments not only served religious purposes but also
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