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This study considers Philip the Good of Burgundy (1419–1467) as a patron of history writing and of illuminated manuscripts, concentrating on the visual and literary projects that supported his efforts to launch a crusade. Several manuscripts commissioned in the mid-1450s are par…

Sarasins and Franks examines the ways in which European Christians and Mediterranean Muslims portrayed one another in purportedly learned works dealing with geography and ethnography, as well as in popular works of fiction and non-fiction. Using Edward Said's concept of the Othe…