Baetens, Roland; Blondé, Bruno - In: Histoire, économie & société 13 (1994) 3, pp. 531-541
[eng] Abstract During its Golden Age (16th C.) Antwerp became the commercial metropolis of the Western European Economy. The social and cultural identity of the Antwerp bourgeoisie was profoundly marked by this commercial background. This pattern also emerges from research of 17th and 18th С...