This book is suitable for undergraduate students of History, French, or European Studies taking courses on Medieval France, the Hundred Years War, or Medieval Europe; secondary students of Medieval History; postgraduates, scholars and teachers of Medieval France; and for Library sale. The book prese[...]
This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those[...]
Few texts offer as many insights into the history of Valois Burgundy as the work of George Chastelain (c.1414-1475), official chronicler to the dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold. Chastelain, a trusted courtier, closely observed his masters' authority in the many dominions they ruled in the [...]