George Chastelain And The Shaping Of Valois Burgundy

Author : Graeme Small
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Burgundy (France)
ISBN : 0861932374

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George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy by Graeme Small Pdf

Few texts offer as many insights into the history of Valois Burgundy as the work of George Chastelain (c.1414-1475), official chronicler to the dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold. Chastelain, a trusted courtier, closely observed his masters' authority in the many dominions they ruled in the Low Countries and France, and the role they played in the political life of neighbouring kingdoms and principalities and in Christendom as a whole. This is the first historical study of Chastelain in over half a century. An account of his life and career is followed by a study of the chronicle, Chastelain's interpretation within it of ducal actions and aspirations, and the role it played in the historical culture of the governing classes in the Netherlands after the death of the last duke in 1477. Overall, Dr Small offers a complete reappraisal of the political ambitions of the ducal elite, particularly with regard to the supposed evolution of the ducal dominions into a `Burgundian state' quite distinct from the Kingdom of France. Dr GRAEME SMALL is lecturer in medieval history, University of Glasgow.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047444749

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Networks, Regions and Nations: Shaping Identities in the Low Countries, 1300-1650 by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers a fascinating insight into the continuities and discontinuities in the formation of identities in the Low Countries and its neighbouring countries. It is an important contribution to the ongoing debates about national and other identities.

Author : Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107097049

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Generations of Feeling by Barbara H. Rosenwein Pdf

An exploration of emotional life in the West, considering the varieties, transformations and constants of human emotions over eleven centuries.

Author : Catherine Emerson
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1843830523

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Olivier de La Marche and the Rhetoric of Fifteenth-century Historiography by Catherine Emerson Pdf

How reliable are La Marche's Memoires of the fifteenth-century Burgundian court? Examination of key issues proves their validity.

Author : Arjan van Dixhoorn,Susie Speakman Sutch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004546196

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Performative Literary Culture by Arjan van Dixhoorn,Susie Speakman Sutch Pdf

Performative literary culture emerged as a set of practices that shaped production and distribution of learning in late medieval and early modern Western Europe, both in Latin and the vernacular. Performative literary culture encompasses the plays, songs, and poetry performed for live audiences in (semi-)public spaces and the organizations championing performative literature through meetings and events. These organizations included chambers of rhetoric, confraternities of the Puy, joyous companies, guilds of Meistersingers, the Consistory of Joyful Knowledge, academies, companies of the Basoche and Inns of Court, and the institutions or people organizing the Spanish justas. Written by a team of experts, the contributions in this book explore how performative literary cultures shaped the exchange of public learning, knowledge, and ideas between the oral, theatrical, and literary spheres. Contributors include: Francisco J. Álvarez, Adrian Armstrong, Gabriele Ball , Anita Boele, Cynthia J. Brown, Susanna de Beer, Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Ignacio García Aguilar, Laura Kendrick, Samuel Mareel, Inmaculada Osuna, Bart Ramakers, Dylan Reid, Catrien Santing, Susie Speakman Sutch, and Arjan van Dixhoorn.

Author : Adrian Armstrong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351908894

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Print and Power in France and England, 1500-1800 by Adrian Armstrong Pdf

What was the relationship between power and the public sphere in early modern society? How did the printed media inform this relationship? Contributors to this volume address those questions by examining the interaction of print and power in France and England during the 'hand-press period'. Four interconnected and overlapping themes emerge from these studies, showing the essential historical and contextual considerations shaping the strategies both of power and of those who challenged it via the written word during this period. The first is reading and control, which examines the relationship between institutional power and readers, either as individuals or as a group. A second is propaganda on behalf of institutional power, and the ways in which such writings engage with the rhetorics of power and their reception. The Academy constitutes a third theme, in which contributors explore the economic and political implications of publishing in the context of intellectual elites. The last theme is clientism and faction, which examines the competing political discourses and pressures which influenced widely differing forms of publication. From these articles there emerges a global view of the relationship between print and power, which takes the debate beyond the narrowly theoretical to address fundamental questions of how print sought to challenge, or reinforce, existing power-structures, both from within and from without.

Author : Sini Kangas,Mia Korpiola,Tuija Ainonen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110294569

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Authorities in the Middle Ages by Sini Kangas,Mia Korpiola,Tuija Ainonen Pdf

Medievalists reading and writing about and around authority-related themes lack clear definitions of its actual meanings in the medieval context. Authorities in the Middle Ages offers answers to this thorny issue through specialized investigations. This book considers the concept of authority and explores the various practices of creating authority in medieval society. In their studies sixteen scholars investigate the definition, formation, establishment, maintenance, and collapse of what we understand in terms of medieval struggles for authority, influence and power. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume resonates with the multi-faceted field of medieval culture, its social structures, and forms of communication. The fields of expertise include history, legal studies, theology, philosophy, politics, literature and art history. The scope of inquiry extends from late antiquity to the mid-fifteenth century, from the Church Fathers debating with pagans to the rapacious ghosts ruining the life of the living in the Sagas. There is a special emphasis on such exciting but understudied areas as the Balkans, Iceland and the eastern fringes of Scandinavia.

Author : Els Rose
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031485619

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City, Citizen, Citizenship, 400–1500 by Els Rose Pdf

Author : Andrea Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351939430

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Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350–1530 by Andrea Pearson Pdf

Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists such as the Master of Mary of Burgundy, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, and Bernard van Orley, author Andrea Pearson identifies and explores pictorial constructions of masculinity and femininity in regard to the expectations, experiences, and practices of devotion. Specifically, she demonstrates that two of the most prominent visual genres of the period, books of hours and devotional portrait diptychs, were manipulated by patrons and spectators of both sexes to challenge and negotiate the boundaries and hierarchies of gender, and that marginalized individuals and groups appropriated the types to resist the authority of others and advance their own. Ultimately, the books and diptychs emerge as critical and often contentious sites for deliberating and transacting gender. By integrating books of hours and devotional portrait diptychs into current interdisciplinary theoretical discourse on gender, power and devotion, the author engages scholars in a range of disciplines: art history, history, religion and literature, as well as women's and men's studies.

Author : R. J. Walsh
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781386316

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Charles the Bold in Italy 1467-1477 by R. J. Walsh Pdf

This is a definitive study of Charles the Bold’s diplomatic and military relations with the Italian states, taking full account of economic policy. The book makes extensive use not only of the great mass of diplomatic correspondence in the archives of Florence, Mantua, Milan, Modena and Venice, but also of Charles’ financial records in the archives of Brussels and Lille. The author’s mastery of these primary sources is complemented by judicious use of a wide range of secondary material. Aspects of Charles the Bold’s relations with Italy have been considered in earlier literature, but no study has before dealt with them comprehensively at any length. This book fills that gap and places Charles’ reign in its wider European context.

Author : Juliana Dresvina,Nicholas Sparks
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781443844284

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Authority and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Chronicles by Juliana Dresvina,Nicholas Sparks Pdf

This volume is an attempt to discuss the ways in which themes of authority and gender can be traced in the writing of chronicles and chronicle-like writings from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. With major contributions by fourteen authors, each of them specialists in the field, this study spans full across the compass of medieval and early modern Europe, from England and Scandinavia, to Byzantium and the Crusader Kingdoms; embraces a variety of media and methods; and touches evidence from diverse branches of learning such as language and literature, history and art, to name just a few. This is an important collection which will be of the highest utility for students and scholars of language, literature, and history for many years to come.

Author : Steven J. Gunn,A. Janse
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 1843831910

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The Court as a Stage by Steven J. Gunn,A. Janse Pdf

European and English courtly culture and history reappraised through the prism of the court as theatre. In the past half-century, court history has lost the air of frivolity that once relegated it to the margins of serious historical study and has rightfully taken a central part in the study of European states and societies in the age of personal monarchy. Yet it has been approached from so many different angles and appropriated to so many different models that it can be hard to put all our new understandings together to achieve a proper perspective on the functions of the court as a whole. This collection of essays uses the idea of the court as a stage for social and political interaction to re-integrate different styles of court history, focusing on courts in England and the Low Countries from the age of Richard II and Albert of Bavaria to that of Elizabeth I and Philip II. Themes studied include the relationship between court politics and cultural change, the social and political functions of court office-holding, the military, judicial and propagandist roles of the court, the economic relationships between courts and cities and the wider social and political significance of court rituals and traditions.

Author : Edelgard E. DuBruck,Barbara Gusick
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1571132287

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Fifteenth-Century Studies by Edelgard E. DuBruck,Barbara Gusick Pdf

Founded in 1977 as the publication organ for the Fifteenth-Century Symposium, Fifteenth-Century Studies has appeared annually since then. It publishes essays on all aspects of life in the fifteenth century, including literature, drama, history, philosophy, art, music, religion, science, and ritual and custom. The editors strive to do justice to the most contested medieval century, a period that is the stepchild of research. The period defies consensus on fundamental issues: some dispute, in fact, whether the fifteenth century belonged at all to the middle ages, arguing that it was a period of transition, a passage to modern times. At issue, therefore, is the very tenor of an age that stood under the tripartite influence of Gutenberg, the Turks, and Columbus. Volume 26 contains the customary survey of research on late-medieval drama. There are six articles on French literature, four on German topics, two on Italian art, one on Spanish medieval predication, and three on English literary matters. Six of the articles focus on women and misogyny. Further topics include: popular approaches to problems of daily living; the crusades and mysticism; an early warning against excess in travel and exploration; the conduct of princes as described in chronicles; the so-called Pope Joan; theater, including farces, passion pageants, and triumphant entries of princes; critique of the estates; the function of authors, and their rights, duties, and privileges. There are 17 book reviews and two obituary dedications. The volume has been assembled with special care for style, excellence of research, and variety of approaches. Edelgard DuBruck is professor emerita of Modern Languages at Marygrove College, Detroit, Michigan. Barbara Gusick is professor emerita of English at Troy University-Dothan, Dothan, Alabama.

Author : Maria Golubeva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004250741

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Models of Political Competence by Maria Golubeva Pdf

Offering a systematic analysis of texts produced at the courts of Burgundy and Austrian Habsburg over a period reaching from the 1470s until the early 1700s, this book traces the development of the idea of successful and competent political behaviour as seen through the eyes of court historians between the fifteenth and the eighteenth centuries. The official chronicles and histories studied in this work not only reveal a growing influence of secular political thinking on the evolving model of political competence, but also present in detail the close relationship between the nascent state ideology and secular political theory. More broadly, following the development of official history-writing, Models of Political Competence highlights the importance of historiography for the research on political thinking and its relevance for our understanding of the modern state in Europe and its origins.

Author : Andrew Villalon,Donald Kagay
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047442837

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The Hundred Years War (Part II) by Andrew Villalon,Donald Kagay Pdf

In thirteen articles, this volume affirms that the Hundred Years War was a struggle that spilled out of its heartlands of England and France into many European regions. These “different vistas” of scholarship greatly amply the study of the conflict.