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Flandria Illustrata: Flemish Identities in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period

Medievalists.net — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 03:08:16 +0000

This chapter discusses identity formation in early modern Flanders. It argues that policy makers and their intellectual agents transformed the perception of a province that had been divided by urban rivalries, civil war and conflicts with the Burgundian and Habsburg overlords, into a bastion of the Catholic Counter Reformation with strong ties to the Spanish King and his representatives.

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Medieval Perspectives: Jean de Waurin and His Perception of the Turks in Anatolia in the Late Middle Ages

Medievalists.net — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:54:26 +0000

This paper discusses the reasons Wavrin wrote his account of the crusade of Varna and Walerin de Wavrin’s expedition into the Balkans, which was later published within his history of Britain and how he perceived and accordingly presented the Turks to the renaissance readers.

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Northern Renaissance? Burgundy And Netherlandish Art In Fifteenth-Century Europe

Medievalists.net — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 07:44:16 +0000

Everyone who has studied medieval or modern history knows that the periodisation of the eras on either side of the Renaissance provides much food for thought. This contribution aims irst to address the usefulness of the widespread concept of the ‘Northern Renaissance’.

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The Image of the City in Peace and War in a Burgundian manuscript of Jean Froissart’s Chronicles

Medievalists.net — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 15:57:52 +0000

The present essay, which complements a study scheduled for publication in 2000 in a volume arising from a colloquium on the theme Regions and Landscapes held in July 1997 at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds, attempts to build on this work.

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Could Duke Phillip the Good of Burgundy have owned the Bayeux tapestry in 1430?

Medievalists.net — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:20:57 +0000

An entry in the Inventory of the Bayeux cathedral treasury records that in 1476 the church owned the following: Item une tente tres longue et estroicte de telle a broderie d'ymages et escripteaulx, faisans representation du Conquest d'Angleterre, laquelle est tendu environ la nefde l'église le jour et par l'octave des reliques (l). Not until the 1720 's did scholars first find and appreciate the potential importance of this brief entry.

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Isabella of Bourbon, Countess of Charolais

Medievalists.net — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:17:46 +0000

She was the daughter of Charles I, Duke of Bourbon and Agnes, daughter of Duke John the Fearless of Burgundy and sister of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.

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Castle for Sale in France: Château de La Rochepot

Medievalists.net — Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:14:39 +0000

Perched on a cliff-side above a medieval village, Château de La Rochepot dates back to the 13th century.

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Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy

Medievalists.net — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:30:28 +0000

Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy was a man born with huge potential.

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Mary, Duchess of Burgundy

Medievalists.net — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 01:10:08 +0000

As the only child of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, Mary was the heir of a far-ranging, wealthy and diverse realm and she was sometimes called Mary the Rich.

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The Reputation of the Queen and Public Opinion: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria

Medievalists.net — Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:05:33 +0000

This essay takes issue with a still common tendency to read contemporary criticisms of powerful women as straightforward evidence of their “unpopularity,” using as a cast study Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435), who was generally imagined to have suffered the scorn of her contemporaries.

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