Medievalists.net » John the Fearless Duke of Burgundy http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Medieval Perspectives: Jean de Waurin and His Perception of the Turks in Anatolia in the Late Middle Ages http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/medieval-perspectives-jean-de-waurin-perception-turks-anatolia-late-middle-ages/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/medieval-perspectives-jean-de-waurin-perception-turks-anatolia-late-middle-ages/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2014 15:54:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=52296 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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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/09/02/medieval-perspectives-jean-de-waurin-perception-turks-anatolia-late-middle-ages/feed/ 0 The Reputation of the Queen and Public Opinion: The Case of Isabeau of Bavaria http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/12/the-reputation-of-the-queen-and-public-opinion-the-case-of-isabeau-of-bavaria/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/12/the-reputation-of-the-queen-and-public-opinion-the-case-of-isabeau-of-bavaria/#comments Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:05:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46605 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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