Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century : Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship

Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship

The first collection of essays in the English language dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval Europe. The house of Luxembourg between 1308 and 1437 is best known today for its principal royal and imperial representatives, Henry...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Burkhardt, Julia, contributor (contributor), Ciulisová, Ingrid, contributor (editor), Ciulisová, Ingrid, editor, Deeming, Helen, editor, Jaluška, Matouš, contributor, Knighton, Tess, editor, Kügle, Karl, contributor, Kügle, Karl, editor, Matějková, Jana Fantysová, contributor, Panušková, Lenka, contributor, Scales, Len, contributor, Schmidt, Ondřej, contributor, Smilansky, Uri, contributor, Theisen, Maria, contributor, Toussaint, Gia, contributor, Whelan, Mark, contributor, Žůrek, Václav, contributor, Žůrek, Václav, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell and Brewer [2024]
Edición:1st ed
Materias:
Political culture > Luxembourg > History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009785408706719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • Maps
  • Henry VII: Ancestry and Progeny
  • John of Luxembourg, King of Bohemia, and his Progeny
  • Charles IV and his Progeny down the Male Line
  • Counts of Artois and Burgundy (HRE)
  • Counts then Dukes of Bar
  • Dukes of Brabant
  • Kings of France
  • Introduction: The 'Long Luxembourg Century' (1308-1437): Courtly Networks, Cultural Politics, Dynastic Legacy
  • PART I: John the Blind and his Progeny in France
  • 1 The 'Luxembourgness' of Things: Machaut C, Glazier 52, and Dynastic Presence in Early Fourteenth-Century France
  • 2 Guillaume de Machaut at the Court of John of Luxembourg: Defining a Social Milieu
  • 3 The Vyšší Brod Cycle and its Anonymous Painter: French and Bohemian Court Circles in the 1340s
  • PART II: Marvellous Objects and Culture at the Court of Charles IV
  • 4 Charles of Luxembourg and his Reliquary Cross: The Significance of Precious Stones
  • 5 Charles IV and the Patronage of Multilingual Literature at his Court and Beyond
  • 6 Miraculous Objects and Foundational Sins: Verbal and Material Reality in the Dalimil Chronicle, the Chronicle of Přibík Pulkava of Radenín, and Charles IV's Autobiography
  • PART III: Wenceslas and Sigismund: Art, Politics, and Diplomacy
  • 7 The Making of the Wenceslas Bible, with Special Consideration of the Theological Concept of its Genesis Initial
  • 8 The Naked King: Representing Wenceslas in his Illuminated Bible
  • 9 Dealing with the Luxembourg Court: Ellwangen Abbey and their Imperial Overlord
  • 10 Assessing the Luxembourgs: The Image of Wenceslas and Sigismund in the Correspondence of Italian Ambassadors
  • PART IV: Studying the Luxembourgs: What has been Neglected
  • 11 Heiresses, Regents, and Patrons: Female Rulers in the Age of the Luxembourgs
  • 12 Image-making, Image-breaking, and the Luxembourg Monarchy
  • 13 The Absent Present: Luxembourg Courts, their Sonic Cultures, and Music Histor(iograph)y
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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