Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day

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They were still the seat of the " ^chevinage," and it was within their walls that the magistrates of the town met the duke's representative, the " bailU." Economic activity had left the central hall and migrated to the Exchange. The achieve- ment of the Hotels de Ville of Brussels (1454) 8 114 BELGIUM and Louvain (1463) coincides with the foundation of the first European Exchange in Antwerp (1460).
In this transformation of the municipal buildings from the Middle Ages to the early Renaissance,
...we may read a parallel transformation in poUtical and social institutions. The municipal spirit was still predominant, and the resistance made by Bruges in 1436, and stiU more energetically by Ghent from 1450 to 1453, to the increasing in- fluence of Philip the Good, shows clearly that the communal spirit was still prevalent, especially in the old towns. But the relatively more modem towns, such as Brussels and Antwerp, were ready to accept the beneficial protection of the princes.
The villages and the country, which had suffered for a long time from the tyranny of the large towns, were all on his side.


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