The History of Northwestern Europe
This history takes – wherever possible – three cities: Oss, Ootmarsum and Nordhorn as its central focus points for events and developments that shaped Northwestern Europe.
- Introduction
- Paleolithic
- Mesolithic Northwestern Europe – 11000 – 6000 BCE
- Neolithic Northwestern Europe 6,000 – 2,500 BCE
- Bronze and Iron Age Northwestern Europe 2,500 – 250 BCE
- On the Roman Limes 100 – 450
- Germanic, Goth and Viking Migrations
- Early beliefs, paganism and religion
- Christianity steps into power vacuum
- From Salli to Merovingians 250 – 750
- The Rise of the Carolingians 600 – 850
- Missionaries and Monasteries
- The Early Middle Ages 500 – 1000
- Villages and Serfdom 800 – 1300
- Italy and the Papal Pornocracy 800 – 1100
- Aquitaine and Anjou
- Lotharingia, East and West Francia – 843-1100
- The House of Leuven shaping Brabant – 885 -1200
- Brabant emerging
- Flanders and Hainault
- Low Countries – River Lands
- Hamaland, Twente, Bentheim, Munster
- Frisia and Utrecht
- Holland and Zeeland
- Gelre and Kleve
- The arrival of the cities
- The battle between religion and state
- Crusades
- The Late Middle Ages
- Popular Uprisings
- Trade in the Middle Ages
- The Rise and Fall of the Catholic Church 1000 – 1550
- Heresy and Witch Hunts
- Climate Change, Floods, Famine and the Great Death
- Science, Healthcare, Education, Culture
- Duchy of Brabant – 1190 – 1407
- Dukes of Burgundy 1363 – 1555
- Brabant under Burgundian rule – 1400 – 1450
- Appendix Jonkers van Oss
- Appendix Hoe de Heren van Aemstel in Oss terecht kwamen (Dutch)
- Appendix Oss en de gevolgen van de klimaatsveranderingen na de laatste ijstijd
- Appendix Medieval Architecture (under construction)
- Appendix Sources and miscellaneous