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Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420-1530 / selected sources translated and annotated with an introduction by Andrew Brown and Graeme Small.
Van Pelt Library DC611.B78 C68 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Andrew, 1964-
- Series:
- Manchester medieval sources series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burgundy (France)--Court and courtiers.
- Burgundy (France).
- Burgundy (France)--History--To 1500.
- Burgundy (France)--History--16th century.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 280 pages : 1 map ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
- Contents:
- Map of the Burgundian dominions, 1476 xii
- Court and civic society 1
- The Burgundian lands 3
- Urban society 7
- City and state 11
- Service at court: nobles and townsmen 13
- Ceremony and ritual 21
- 'Urban' and 'courtly' ceremonies 23
- Ritual and power 28
- Symbolic communication and ritual performance 32
- I Burgundian spectacles
- 1 The Feast of the Pheasant at Lille, 17 February, 1454 36
- 2 The marriage feast of Charles the Bold and Margaret of York in Bruges, 3-14 July, 1468 54
- II The court
- 3 Perceptions of the court: Pero Tafur 91
- 4 A description of the household of Charles the Bold, 1474 94
- 5 Etiquette at court: Eleanor of Poitiers 104
- 6 A household Ordonnance for Charles, Prince of Spain, 1515 110
- 7 The court as marriage broker 115
- (a) Jacques du Clercq on court weddings 115
- (b) George Chastelain on court weddings 116
- (c) The marriage of Jehan Gros and Guye de Messey, February 1472 117
- 8 Jean Coustain: peasant's son, courtier, poisoner, 1462 119
- III The Order of the Golden Fleece
- 9 The founding of the Order 135
- 10 The statutes of the Order 137
- 11 Organisation of a chapter, c.1500 146
- 12 The Mons chapter, 1451 156
- (a) A town council prepares 156
- (b) A church prepares 157
- (c) The business of the chapter 158
- (d) After the chapter 163
- IV Entry ceremonies
- 13 Preparing for the prince, Ghent, 1458 167
- 14 Welcoming the prince, Ghent, 1458 176
- 15 An Entry ceremony goes awry, Ghent, 1467 186
- 16 Paying for an Entry ceremony, Bruges, 1515 197
- V Civic society and the Court: jousts, shooting fraternities and Chambers of rhetoric
- 17 Crossbow and archery guilds 210
- (a) Constitution, Bethune, 1413 216
- (b) Competition, Tournai, 1455 216
- 18 Jousts 219
- (a) The jousts of the White Bear, Bruges, 1457 225
- (b) The joust of the Epinette, Lille, 1486 228
- 19 Chambers of rhetoric 231
- (a) Competition, Antwerp, 1496 231
- (b) Le Puy Notre-Dame, Lille, 1479 235
- (c) Organisation, Antwerp, 1522 236
- VI Civic religion and the court
- 20 The Brussels ommegang 242
- (a) The Brussels ommegang: the civic ordinance of 1448 242
- (b) The Brussels ommegang and The Seven Joys of the Virgin Mary, 1448 244
- 21 Scheut: The miraculous image of the Virgin Mary, 1450-1457 245
- 22 The procession of Our Lady at Tournai, 1461 250
- 23 The procession of Our Lady at Lille, 1463 251
- 24 Valenciennes: fraternity of St Barbara, 1459 252
- 25 Ghent: windows in the parish church of St John the Baptist, 1462 253
- 26 Maximilian in Bruges: 1488: oaths and general processions 254
- 27 Ducal offerings and alms, 1468 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780719056192
- 0719056195
- 0719056209
- 9780719056208
- OCLC:
- 171110493
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