Offering a systematic analysis of texts produced between the court of Burgundy in the 1470s and the court of the Austrian Habsburgs in the early 1700s, this book traces the development of the idea of successful and competent political behaviour as seen through the eyes of court …
In der vorliegenden Studie werden die Gründung und die Reform des Klosters Muri aus dem Blickwinkel hochmittelalterlicher Quellen analysiert und schwerpunktmässig aus einer erinnerungskulturellen Perspektive befragt. Die Zeugnisse des 12. Jahrhunderts überliefern Erinnerungen an…
This book explores the textual and visual representation of justice in a corpus of chivalric romances produced in the mid-15th century for noble patrons at the court of Burgundy. This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist k…
This book explores the textual and visual representation of justice in a corpus of chivalric romances produced in the mid-15th century for noble patrons at the court of Burgundy. This is the first monograph devoted to manuscripts illuminated by the mid-fifteenth-century artist k…
"When the powerful Duke of Burgundy Philip the Good, took a Portuguese princess as his third wife, he found he had married a woman who not only had large ambitions, but also the ingenuity and determination to attain them." "For more than twenty-five years after her marriage in …
"When the powerful Duke of Burgundy Philip the Good, took a Portuguese princess as his third wife, he found he had married a woman who not only had large ambitions, but also the ingenuity and determination to attain them." "For more than twenty-five years after her marriage in …
