regional languages of these countries. The folklore of the Low Countries encompasses the folk traditions of the Benelux countries: Netherlands, Belgium and...

Eastern Europe, Central Europe and the Middle East. In the folklore of the Low Countries, Zwarte Piet is portrayed as the dark-skinned Spanish Moor companion...

folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland and Sápmi. Folklore is a concept encompassing expressive traditions of...

cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland. The first conflict saw the establishment of the Christian Union (formed of cantons...

Scandinavian Tomte or Nisse, the English Hob, the Scottish Brownie and the German Klabauter or kobold. In the folklore of the Low Countries, Kabouters are tiny...

of the resident peoples of the Low Countries' included: Germanic tribes north of the Rhine River (with a lot of exceptions like the Eburones or the Celtic...

Caucasian folklore contains many links with the myths of the ancient Greeks. There are resemblances between the mother goddess Satanaya and the Greek goddess...

actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. In the context of the Reformation, Martin Luther was the first reformer, sharing...

Luxembourgish: Kleeschen) in the folklore of the Low Countries. Traditionally, Zwarte Piet serves as an assistant to the saint and distributes sweets...

the companion of Saint Nicholas (Dutch: Sinterklaas) in the folklore of the Low Countries. The character first appeared in his current form in an 1850...

class of plays written in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras (circa 1580s to 1620s). Most scholars argue that the revenge tragedies of William...

water spirits in Germanic mythology and folklore. Under a variety of names, they are common to the stories of all Germanic peoples, although they are...

Swedish Finnish Icelandic Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age Folklore of the Low Countries 16th century Renaissance humanism 16th century in poetry 16th...

The Magisterial Reformation includes the Lutheran, Reformed, and Anglican traditions of Protestant Christianity and how these denominations "related to...

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the domestic Catholic and the émigré Protestant branches. Unlike in other European countries of the time, the nobility in Bohemia was not a part of the...

folklore, an almas, alma or almasty, is a cryptid folk creature said to inhabit the Caucasus, Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains of Central Asia and the Altai...

Germany, the Low Countries, Poland-Lithuania, Hungary and England with the adoption of large-scale printing after 1500, and it became associated with the Reformation...

literature is the literature of Slovakia. The first monuments of literature from territory now included in present-day Slovakia are from the time of Great Moravia...

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tragedy around the following suppositions: The stage—in both comedy and tragedy—should feature noble characters (this would eliminate many low-characters...

notable in the rule of John of Leiden over the city of Münster in 1535, which was ultimately crushed by the combined forces of the Catholic Bishop of Münster...

focuses more on the moral drama of the Renaissance man than any other thing. Drawing on German folklore, Marlowe introduced the story of Faust to England...

Pastoral. The first way emphasizes the historical literary perspective of the pastoral in which authors recognize and discuss life in the country and in...

principalities. After the Eighty Years' War in the Low Countries and the French Wars of Religion, the confessional division of the states of the Holy Roman Empire...

reference to Oddi, a place where Snorri Sturluson (the writer of the Prose Edda) was brought up. The Elder Edda or Poetic Edda (originally attributed to...

This is an alphabetical list of Protestant Reformers. Contents A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Johannes Aepinus Johann Agricola Eisleben...

History is one of the three main genres in Western theatre alongside tragedy and comedy, although it originated, in its modern form, thousands of years later...

presidency of the pastor. Over the centuries, Waldensian churches have been established in countries as far away from France as Uruguay and the United States...

an early advocate for the doctrine of double predestination, an issue that ripped through both Italy and Francia from 848 into the 850s and 860s. Led by...