The Ideology of Burgundy

The Promotion of National Consciousness, 1364-1565
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15359-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 145, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 708 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This book is a collection of eight essays on the ideology of Burgundy, dealing with the body of ideas, images, institutions and narrative fictions produced at the behest of the Valois dukes to create and maintain their incipient domanial state in the period from roughly 1364 to the 1560s. Nation building requires an ideological framework and the successive dukes, their officers and their court intellectuals all contributed to a self-determinative image of Burgundy which became visible in their literature, in their quest for a regal title, in the foundation of the Order of the Golden Fleece and in their propaganda. The essays approach the themes of the collection from the perspective of several disciplines, and together present a well-rounded picture of Burgundian nation-building.

Contributors include: D’A.J.D. Boulton, Jan Dumolyn, Malte Prietzel, Graeme Small, Robert Stein, Bernhard Sterchi, Jan R. Veenstra, and David J. Wrisley.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boulton, Jonathan

Veenstra, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction, D’A.J.D. Boulton & Jan R. Veenstra
Contributors

1. Justice, Equity and the Common Good: The State Ideology of the Councillors of the Burgundian Dukes, Jan Dumolyn
2. The Order of the Golden Fleece and the Creation of Burgundian National Identity, D’A.J.D. Boulton
3. The Importance of Reputation in the Theory and Practice of Burgundian Chivalry: Jean de Lannoy, the Croÿs, and the Order of the Golden Fleece, Bernhard Sterchi
4. Rhetoric, Politics and Propaganda: Guillaume Fillastre’s Speeches, Malte Prietzel
5. Burgundian Ideologies and Jehan Wauquelin’s Prose Translations, David J. Wrisley
6. Of Burgundian Dukes, Counts, Saints and Kings (14 C.E. – c. 1520), Graeme Small
7. ‘Le prince qui se veult faire de nouvel roy’: The Literature and Ideology of Burgundian Self-Determination, Jan R. Veenstra
8. Seventeen: The Multiplicity of a Unity in the Low Countries, Robert Stein

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Boulton is Associate Professor of History and Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame (USA).

Jan R. Veenstra teaches the history of medieval and renaissance philosophy at the University of Groningen (Netherlands).