Medievalists.net » King Charles VI 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 Disinheritance: Some thoughts about Jacqueline of Hainault and Anne Neville http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/20/disinheritance-thoughts-jacqueline-hainault-anne-neville/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/20/disinheritance-thoughts-jacqueline-hainault-anne-neville/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2014 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=49080 In the 15th century, a rich inheritance could be a liability rather than an asset. An unfortunate heiress could be imprisoned by predatory relatives wanting control of her lands. Marriages made for the purpose of enlarging inheritances could become a form of imprisonment. Inheritance conflicts, in or out of court, could drag on or turn violent.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/04/20/disinheritance-thoughts-jacqueline-hainault-anne-neville/feed/ 0 Interpreting Warfare and Knighthood in Late Medieval France: Writers and Their Sources in the Reign of King Charles VI (1380-1422) http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/interpreting-warfare-and-knighthood-in-late-medieval-france-writers-and-their-sources-in-the-reign-of-king-charles-vi-1380-1422/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/interpreting-warfare-and-knighthood-in-late-medieval-france-writers-and-their-sources-in-the-reign-of-king-charles-vi-1380-1422/#comments Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:40:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39725 Romances provided the basis of a particular kind of view of knighthood and warfare that was very influential on other literature concerning knights and warfare, as much as it was on real life practices and attitudes.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/10/interpreting-warfare-and-knighthood-in-late-medieval-france-writers-and-their-sources-in-the-reign-of-king-charles-vi-1380-1422/feed/ 0 The Politics of Madness: Government in the Reigns of Charles VI and Henry VI http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/09/the-politics-of-madness-government-in-the-reigns-of-charles-vi-and-henry-vi/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/09/the-politics-of-madness-government-in-the-reigns-of-charles-vi-and-henry-vi/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:33 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37873 This approach is further hampered by the continually changing nature of modem psychology. Due to alterations in the criteria used for diagnoses, terms and illnesses become obsolete, thus negating our previous theories.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/09/the-politics-of-madness-government-in-the-reigns-of-charles-vi-and-henry-vi/feed/ 0 Advising France through the Example of England: Visual Narrative in the Livre de la prinse et mort du roy Richart (Harl. MS. 1319) http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/advising-france-through-the-example-of-england-visual-narrative-in-the-livre-de-la-prinse-et-mort-du-roy-richart-harl-ms-1319/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/advising-france-through-the-example-of-england-visual-narrative-in-the-livre-de-la-prinse-et-mort-du-roy-richart-harl-ms-1319/#comments Tue, 14 Aug 2012 04:19:08 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34758 This article complements historical and textual analyses of Creton’s book by examining the visual narrative in Harl. MS. 1319, the only one of the seven surviving manuscripts of the text to be illustrated with a pictorial cycle of sixteen images.

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