Read more
European and English courtly culture and history reappraised through the prism of the court as theatre.
List of contents
Introduction: New Histories of the Court - Steven Gunn and Antheun Janse
Ritual, Ceremony and the `Civilising Process': The Role of the Court, c.1270-1400 - Malcolm Vale
Corruption at Court? Crisis and the Theme of luxuria in England and France, c.1340-1422 - C. D. Fletcher
Patterns in Patronage: Distinction and Imitation in the Patronage of Painted Art by Burgundian Courtiers in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuriesand Early Sixteenth Centuries - Hanno Wijsman
The Nerve Centre of Political Networks? The Burgundian Court and the Integration of Holland and Zeeland into the Burgundian State, 1425-14771425-1477 - Mario Damen
Appointment Strategies at the Court of Duke Philip the Good: New Applications of Old Mechanisms - Hanno Brand
For Mutual Benefit? Court and City in the Burgundian Low Countries - Peter Stabel
Memoirs and the Self-Consciousness of the Court: the Birth of a Genre - D A L Morgan
The Court of Henry VII - Steven Gunn
The Court, War and Noble Power in England, c.1475-1558 - David Grummitt
The Burgundian-Habsburg Court as a Military Institution from Charles the Bold to Philip II - Hans Cools
Cultural Life and the Exercise of Power at the Residences of Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, 1512-1580 - Andrew Boyle
Court Life in Early Modern Vienna and Versailles: Discourse versus Practice - Jeroen Duindam
About the author
Steven Gunn, Antheun Janse
