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This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It 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 in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Note on Coinage and Monies of Account
Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction.
Chapter 1: Burgundian Spectacles.
Chapter 2: The Court
Chapter 3: The Order of the Golden Fleece
Chapter 4: Entry Ceremonies
Chapter 5: Civic Society and the Court: Jousts, Shooting Fraternities and Chambers of Rhetoric.
Chapter 6: Civic Religion and the Court
Select Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 11/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719056208, 978-0719056208
      ISBN10: 0719056209

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book is about the spectacles and ceremonies of society in the Low Countries. It 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 in The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Note on Coinage and Monies of Account
      Abbreviations
      Maps
      Introduction.
      Chapter 1: Burgundian Spectacles.
      Chapter 2: The Court
      Chapter 3: The Order of the Golden Fleece
      Chapter 4: Entry Ceremonies
      Chapter 5: Civic Society and the Court: Jousts, Shooting Fraternities and Chambers of Rhetoric.
      Chapter 6: Civic Religion and the Court
      Select Bibliography
      Index

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