The Princely Court

Zusatztext It is his vivid and illuminating reconstructions of court life in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that will be of inestimable use both to medievalists and to all those with a serious interest in court culture. Klappentext In this engaging work! Malcolm Vale sets out to recapture the splendor of court culture in Western Europe during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Exploring the time between the death of St Louis and the rise of Burgundian power in the Low Countries! he illuminates a period in the history of princes and court life previously overshadowed by that of the courts of the dukes of Burgundy. The result is a fascinating evaluation of the nature and role of the court in European history! and a celebration of a forgotten age. Zusammenfassung In this study, Malcolm Vale restores the 13th and 14th century courts to their rightful place in the cultural history of western Europe. By examining both surviving works of art and the evidence of household and other accounts he illuminates the richness and abundance of artistic, literary, and musical life at the courts of this period.

Product details

• Authors: Malcolm Vale, Malcolm (Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at St John's College Vale, Vale Malcolm
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2004
• EAN: 9780199269938
• ISBN: 978-0-19-926993-8
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Europe, European History, ART / European, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, CE period up to c 1500, History of Art, History of art: Byzantine & Medieval art c 500 CE to c 1400, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Genealogy, heraldry, names & honours, Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours, Medieval style, ART / History / European / Medieval