The Miracle of 1511 took place during six weeks of subzero temperatures called the Winter of Death. The city of Brussels was covered in snowmen—a spectacular tableaux that told stories on every ...

Snowman-making not only dates back to the Dark Ages, but actually enjoyed its heyday in the Middle Ages. Perhaps you need to be reminded of the Miracle of 1511, when the city of Brussels made ...

“The Miracle of 1511” was a retaliatory protest conducted by the peasants of Brussels against ... 110 lewd and satirical ...

It was stinking cold in Brussels during 1511’s Winter ... that were downright pornographic. “These snowmen were rock stars and the Miracle of 1511 was Woodstock,” Eckstein wrote in Atlas ...