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This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some
of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of
the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which
has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources
that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider
civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic
interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an
introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography,
the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the
period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events,
such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the
Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and
jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal
to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those
with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony. -- .
This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in
British history, with particular emphasis on political change and
popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs
were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control
of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical
movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from a
cross-Channel political world was followed by civil war and the
eventual rise of a strong Tudor monarchy. As this volume
demonstrates in a number of ways, the impact of many of these macro
changes was felt across the British Isles, not just in England. But
the studies presented here frequently explore major change through
the experience of the middling sort: the gentry active in local
government, the English merchants and Scottish immigrants making
important life choices in major cities, or the industrious clerics
charged with the routine administration of the church. By looking
at the case studies of these men in more detail, we begin to
appreciate that even in this age of great change, there were
profound continuities which carried through into the sixteenth
century. Along the way, too, new light is thrown on the authorship,
date and redaction of texts which continue to shape our
understanding of late medieval British history.
Philip, who ruled from 1419 to 1467, was one of the most powerful
and influential rulers of the fifteenth century. Forced into an
alliance with the English, he soon found that he held the balance
of power between England and France - reflected in the final
crucial phase of the Hundred Years War. Under Philip the Good,
grandson of the founder of the duchy's power, Burgundy reached its
apogee. Professor Vaughan portrays not only Philip the Good
himself, perhaps the most attractive personality among the four
great dukes, butthe workings of the court and of one of the most
efficent - if not necessarily the most popular - administrations in
fifteenth-century Europe. The complex diplomatic history of Philip
the Good's long ducal reign (1419-1467) occupies much of the book,
in particular Burgundy's relations with England and France. The
central theme is Philip the Good's policy of territorial and
personal aggrandisement, which culminated in his negotiations with
the Holy Roman Emperor for a crown. And due attention is given to
the great flowering of artistic life in Burgundy which made
Philip's court at Dijon an important cultural centre in the period
immediately preceding the Renaissance. All this is based on the
close study of the considerable surviving archives of Philip's
civil service, and on the chronicles and letters of the period.
Philip the Good provides a definitive study of the life and times
of the rulerwhose position and achievements made him the greatest
magnate in Europe during what has been called "the Burgundian
century".
Chastelain's chronicle and career supply the context for a
reappraisal of the political aspirations of Philip the Good and
Charles the Bold, 15c dukes of Burgundy. 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 thefirst historical study of
Chastelain in over half a century. An account of his life and
career is followed by a study of his chronicle, Chastelain's
interpretation within it of ducal actions and aspirations, and the
role it playedin 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.
A small book of Sinister Sonnets by Graeme Small & Illustrated
by Rebecca Eden. Made pocket sized for your convenience.
Rereading Huizinga: Autumn of the Middle Ages, a Century Later
explores the legacy and historiographical impact of Johan
Huizinga's 1919 masterwork a century after its publication. Often
considered one of the most successful books in medieval European
history, its reception has varied over the last hundred years,
popular with non-academic readers, and appraised more critically by
fellow historians and those more generally in the field of medieval
studies. There is broad consensus, however, about the work's
absolute centrality, and the authors of this volume assess the
Autumn of the Middle Ages reception, afterlife, and continued
vitality.
The conflict between England and France in the 14th and 15th
centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimulating edited
collection, inspired by the Problems in Focus volume originally
published in 1971, provides a fresh and accessible insight into the
key aspects of The Hundred Years War. With chapters written by
leading experts in the field, based on new methodologies and recent
advances in scholarship, this book places the Anglo-French wars
into a range of wider contexts, such as politics, the home front,
the church, and chivalry. Adopting a sustained comparative
approach, with attention paid to both England and France, The
Hundred Years War Revisited provides a clear and comprehensive
synthesis of the major trends in research on the Hundred Years War.
Concise and thought-provoking, this is essential reading for
undergraduate and postgraduate students of medieval history.
This book provides a fresh introduction to the political history of
late medieval France duing the turbulent period of the "Hundred
Years' War," taking into account the social, economic and religious
contexts. Graeme Small considers not just the monarchy but also
prelates, noble networks and the emerging municipalities in this
new analysis.
This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in
British history, with particular emphasis on political change and
popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs
were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control
of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical
movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual disengagement from a
cross-Channel political world was followed by civil war and the
eventual rise of a strong Tudor monarchy. As this volume
demonstrates in a number of ways, the impact of many of these macro
changes was felt across the British Isles, not just in England. But
the studies presented here frequently explore major change through
the experience of the middling sort: the gentry active in local
government, the English merchants and Scottish immigrants making
important life choices in major cities, or the industrious clerics
charged with the routine administration of the church. By looking
at the case studies of these men in more detail, we begin to
appreciate that even in this age of great change, there were
profound continuities which carried through into the sixteenth
century. Along the way, too, new light is thrown on the authorship,
date and redaction of texts which continue to shape our
understanding of late medieval British history.
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