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Author : Élodie Lecuppre-Desjardin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526174553
This innovative book explores Burgundian history and historiography while offering a complete synthesis covering the nature of politics in medieval Europe and the formation of the medieval state.
Author : Richard Vaughan
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 085115915X
A biography of Philip and a study of the emergence of the Burgundian state under his aegis in the years 1384-1404, paying particular attention to his crucial aquisition of Flanders. There is comprehensive analysis of how Philip'sgovernment worked. Boydell & Brewer does a major service by the simultaneous reissue of Richard Vaughan's studies of the Valois Dukes of Burgundy. Four distinguished scholars add extra value by contributing an introductory chapter for each ducal reign, surveying its historiography since the original publication... The story, which Vaughan tells with verve, has its full share of dramatic turns[: ] this is much more, though, than simply a narrative history; Vaughan's meticulousexplorations of the administrative and financial structures that underpinned ducal authority, and of the court and its culture, are integral to his exposition [...] His achievement remains monumental. There are no comparable, modern, in-depth studies of these four larger-than-life players on the late medieval European stage, in English or in any other language. They are, besides, eminently readable. Maurice Keen, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Whenin 1363 the duke of Burgundy died without an heir, the duchy returned to the French crown. John II's decision to give it to his fourth son, Philip, had some logic behind it, given the independence of the inhabitants; but in so doing he created the basis for a power which was to threaten France's own existence in the following century, and which was to become one of the most influential and glittering courts of Europe. Much of this was due to the characterof Philip the Bold; by marrying the daughter of the count of Flanders, he inherited the wealth of the great Flemish towns in 1384, and the union of the two great fiefdoms to the north and east of France under one ruler meant thatthe resources of the duke of Burgundy were as great as those of the kingdom itself. From 1392 onwards, he was at loggerheads with the regent of France, his brother Louis, duke of Orleans, and this schism was to prove fatal to thekingdom, weakening the administration and leading to the French defeat by Henry V in 1415. Richard Vaughan describes the process by which Philip fashioned this new power, in particular his administrative techniques; but he also gives due weight to the splendours of the new court, in the sphere of the arts, and records the history of its one disastrous failure, the crusade of Nicopolis in 1396. He also offers a portrait of Philip himself, energetic, ambitious and shrewd, the driving force behind the new duchy and its rapid rise to an influential place among the courts of Europe.
Author : Richard 1927- Vaughan
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015006507
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Author : Richard Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:852111264
Author : Bart Van Loo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789543452
A masterful history of the great dynasty of the Netherlands' Middle Ages. 'A sumptuous feast of a book' The Times, Books of the Year 'Thrillingly colourful and entertaining' Sunday Times 'A thrilling narrative of the brutal dazzlingly rich wildly ambitious duchy' Simon Sebag Montefiore 5 stars! Daily Telegraph 'A masterpiece' De Morgen 'A history book that reads like a thriller' Le Soir At the end of the fifteenth century, Burgundy was extinguished as an independent state. It had been a fabulously wealthy, turbulent region situated between France and Germany, with close links to the English kingdom. Torn apart by the dynastic struggles of early modern Europe, this extraordinary realm vanished from the map. But it became the cradle of what we now know as the Low Countries, modern Belgium and the Netherlands. This is the story of a thousand years, a compulsively readable narrative history of ambitious aristocrats, family dysfunction, treachery, savage battles, luxury and madness. It is about the decline of knightly ideals and the awakening of individualism and of cities, the struggle for dominance in the heart of northern Europe, bloody military campaigns and fatally bad marriages. It is also a remarkable cultural history, of great art and architecture and music emerging despite the violence and the chaos of the tension between rival dynasties.
Author : Raluca Radulescu,Alison Truelove
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0719068258
Essays in this collection examine the lifestyles and attitudes of the gentry in late-medieval England. Through surveys of the gentry's military background, administrative and political roles, social behavior, and education, the reader is provided with an overview of how the group's culture evolved and how it was disseminated.
Author : Henri Pirenne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Belgium
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Graeme Small
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Burgundy (France)
ISBN : 0861932374
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 : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367856
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Author : Bruno Blondé,Marc Boone,Anne-Laure Van Bruaene
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108474689
A comprehensive dissection of the making of urban society in the Low Countries during the middle ages and the sixteenth century.
Author : Mark Ormrod,Bart Lambert,Jonathan Mackman
Publisher : Manchester Medieval Studies
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : England
ISBN : 152610914X
Immigrant England tells the story of thousands of people who migrated to later medieval England. The book draws on uniquely rich evidence about the lives of these men and women, and analyses the attitudes of the English to the foreigners in their midst. Essential reading for everyone interested in the historical dimensions of modern debates.
Author : Walter Prevenier,Willem Pieter Blockmans,Wim Blockmans,An Blockmans-Delva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Netherlands
ISBN : 9061531551
Author : Rob Meens,Dorine van Espelo,Bram van den Hoven van Genderen,Janneke Raaijmakers,Irene van Renswoude,Carine van Rhijn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Franks
ISBN : 1526118548
A unique collection that offers fresh and original perspectives on some of the most important themes in Frankish history
Author : James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Holy Roman Empire
ISBN : UOM:39015065290796
Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892367122
Clark examines the book of hours in the context of medieval culture, the book trade in Paris, and the role of Paris as an international center of illumination. 64 illustrations, 40 in color.