The court as a stage : England and the Low Countries in the later Middle Ages / edited by Steven Gunn and Antheun Janse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gunn, S. J. (Steven J.)

Janse, A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Courts and courtiers.

England--Court and courtiers.

England.

Benelux countries--Court and courtiers.

Benelux countries.

Physical Description:

206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell, 2006.

Summary:

European and English courtly culture and history reappraised through the prism of the court as theatre.

Contents:

Introduction: New Histories of the Court / Steven Gunn, Antheun Janse 1

1 Ritual, Ceremony and the 'Civilising Process': The Role of the Court, c. 1270-1400 / Malcolm Vale 13

2 Corruption at Court? Crisis and the Theme of luxuria in England and France, c. 1340-1422 / C. D. Fletcher 28

3 Tourneyers and Spectators: The Shrovetide Tournament at The Hague, 1391 / Antheun Janse 39

4 Patterns in Patronage: Distinction and Imitation in the Patronage of Painted Art by Burgundian Courtiers in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries / Hanno Wijsman 53

5 The Nerve Centre of Political Networks? The Burgundian Court and the Integration of Holland and Zeeland into the Burgundian State, 1425-1477 / Mario Damen 70

6 Appointment Strategies at the Court of Duke Philip the Good: New Applications of Old Mechanisms / Hanno Brand 85

7 For Mutual Benefit? Court and City in the Burgundian Low Countries / Peter Stabel 101

8 Memoirs and the Self-Consciousness of the Court: the Birth of a Genre / D. A. L. Morgan 118

9 The Court of Henry VII / Steven Gunn 132

10 The Court, War and Noble Power in England, c. 1475-1558 / David Grummitt 145

11 The Burgundian-Habsburg Court as a Military Institution from Charles the Bold to Philip II / Hans Cools 156

12 Cultural Life and the Exercise of Power at the Residences of Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, 1512-1580 / Andrew Boyle 169

13 Court Life in Early Modern Vienna and Versailles: Discourse versus Practice / Jeroen Duindam 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1843831910

OCLC:

62344765