Editing Dinant (section)

===Late Middle Ages===
Its strategic location on the [[Meuse]] exposed Dinant to battle and pillage, not always by avowed enemies: in 1466, [[Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy]], uncle of [[Louis de Bourbon, Prince-Bishop of Liège]], and Philip’s son [[Charles the Bold]] punished an uprising in Dinant during the [[Liège Wars]], by casting 800 [[bourgeoisie|burghers]] into the Meuse and setting fire to the city. The city's economic rival was Bouvignes, downriver on the opposite shore of the Meuse.

Late Medieval Dinant and Bouvignes specialised in metalwork, producing finely cast and finished objects in a silvery brass alloy, called ''dinanderie'' and supplying [[aquamanile]]s, candlesticks, [[paten]]s and other altar furniture throughout the Meuse valley (giving these objects their cautious designation "[[Mosan art|Mosan]]"), the Rhineland and beyond.

[[Henri Pirenne]] gained his doctorate in 1883 with a thesis on medieval Dinant.