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      15th Century BurgundyBurgundian Low CountriesValois BurgundyCulture at the court of Valois Burgundy
Under the influence of the royal court, the dukes of Burgundy laid the foundations for their own magnificent court. The court ceremonial was developed at its peak in the second half of the fifteenth century, a period which scholars... more
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval French LiteratureMedieval France15th Century Burgundy
This article aims to analyse how the Burgundian dukes managed to control the political process in Holland and Zeeland and get a grip on the noble elites of the counties in the period 1425-1477. During the fourteenth and fifteenth century,... more
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      Late Middle AgesMedieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryMedieval Studies
A critical and performance edition of Alexander Agricola's chanson "De tous biens plaine" for three voices. The cantus firmus of the tenor is extracted from Hayne Van Ghizeghem's (c. 1445 – 1476 to 1497) eponymous chanson. The text of... more
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      MusicMusical CompositionEarly MusicMusic Education
A non-barred critical transcription of Alexander Agricola's motet-chanson "Belles sur toutes - Tota pulchra es" from Florence, Bibliotea del Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, MS 2439 ff. 63v-64r. For a recording of the music with a... more
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      Musical CompositionMusic HistoryMusic TheoryMusicology
A scroll edition of Pierre de la Rue's "Agnus dei II" from his "Missa l'Homme arme" featuring his famous 4-voiced prolation canon.

For a recording and score-video of the piece see the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTtLNfq0x0
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      MusicMusical CompositionMusic EducationMusic History
Whereas tournaments of the late thirteenth century were infused with cross-channel contact, whether in reciprocity of form or in the international composition of the participants involved, by the early fifteenth century, tournament forms... more
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      Military HistoryLate Middle AgesMedieval HistoryEarly Modern History
A non-barred critical transcription of Alexander Agricola's contrafacta motet, "Virgo sub ethereis" (Source: Berlin, Deutsche Staatsbibliothek, MS 40021 ff. 131v-132r) as derived from his "Comme femme desconfortée". For a video of the... more
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      MusicMusical CompositionMusic HistoryMusic Theory
A transcription of Pierre de la Rue's "Agnus Dei" from his "Missa l'Homme arme," which includes his famous 4 voice prolation canon.

For a recording and score video, see the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTtLNfq0x0
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      MusicMusical CompositionMusic EducationMusic History
A transcription of Alexander Agricola's (1457/58 - 1506) "Tandernaken." For a recording with a score video see the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nac6QU2rhGQ
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      MusicMusical CompositionEarly MusicMusic History
The international conference Les gestes la cour (XIIe-XVIIIe siècle) which was held at the University of Lausanne on 28-30 November 2018, the proceedings of which are included in this volume, set out to verify the the theory that courts... more
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      Medieval HistoryHagiographyHistory of MedicineMedieval French Literature
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      Medieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryMedieval StudiesRenaissance Studies
This article explores the significance of writing history for a late medieval Antwerp patrician family. In recent historiography, these families (in this case Van Halmale) have not received the attention they deserve, in part because... more
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      Late Middle AgesMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesMedieval Historiography
The Burgundian duke Charles the Bold (1433-1477) was not particularly well known for his liberality. According to De Barante, the nineteenth century historian of the Burgundian dukes, he was seen by his officers and the nobles as ‘bien... more
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      Late Middle AgesMedieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryMedieval Studies
From 4 to 7 May 1439 a massive tournament (235 participants) was organized at the Grote Markt in Brussels, in which the Burgundian duke Philip the Good himself participated. This tournament was maybe one of the last in the massive (urban)... more
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      Late Middle AgesPolitical History15th Century BurgundyBurgundian history
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      15th Century BurgundyBurgundian historyBurgundian Low CountriesValois Burgundy
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      Animal StudiesDecorative ArtsCulture at the court of Valois BurgundyValois dukes of Burgundy
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      Art HistorySculptureHistory of ArtMedieval Art
A performance and critical edition of Agricola's two voiced polyphonic setting of "Gaudeamus omnes", Introit for the Feast of the Assumption. For two different recordings and video-scores of the piece see the links below:... more
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      MusicMusical CompositionEarly MusicMusic Education
This paper analyses two late sixteenth-century armorials with the coats of arms of the 235 participants of a tournament organized in May 1439 on the central market square, the Grote Markt, of Brussels. The armorials, trustworthy copies of... more
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      Medieval HistoryManuscript StudiesHeraldryPaleography
This article treats the first entry of a new prince as the start of a series of exchanges between the prince and his subjects. On the occasion of an entry, gifts in all kind of forms, subsistence, luxury and symbolic goods, were exchanged... more
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      Late Middle AgesMedieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryMedieval Studies
This article analyses the use of memoria with respect to the Carthusian monastery of Scheut, a few miles to the west of Brussels. The construction of this monastery around 1455 was first intended to preserve the memory of the battle of... more
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      Late Middle AgesMedieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryGenealogy
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      Medieval StudiesMedieval Art15th Century BurgundyGothic Art
We describe in detail two 15th century gothic domestic clocks in the Musée Charles VII in Mehun sur Yèvre. One of them is remarkable for being one of the very few courtly domestic clocks with exceptionally lavish decoration. The other one... more
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      Medieval StudiesRenaissance StudiesHistory of ScienceMedieval Science
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      15th Century BurgundyBook ReviewsBurgundian Low CountriesBurgundian Netherlands
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      Courts and Elites (History)15th Century BurgundyCeremony, Ritual and PerformanceHistoire du cérémonial
Paper on the continuation of regional historiography in Brabant, Hainault and Holland in the decades following the Burgundian unification of the Low Countries
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      Historiography15th Century BurgundyBurgundian Low CountriesCulture at the court of Valois Burgundy
La richesse des bibliothèques municipales françaises n’est plus à faire et leur inventaire systématique a permis de remarquables découvertes. Au fil des expositions, des articles et des ouvrages spécialisés, des précisions sont... more
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval illuminated manuscriptsBurgundian Low CountriesCulture at the court of Valois Burgundy
A study and critical edition of Agricola's two voiced polyphonic setting of "Gaudeamus omnes", Introit for the Feast of the Assumption. This is intended for teaching various 14th and 15th century mensuration signs and their modern... more
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      MusicMusical CompositionEarly MusicMusic Education
In this article I give a comprehensive view of the relationship between Margaret of York (1446-1503), the wife of the Burgundian duke Charles the Bold, and Voorne, from 1477 onwards her dower lands in the south of the county of Holland. I... more
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      Late Middle AgesMedieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryHospitality Studies
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      15th Century BurgundyEmperor MaximilianCulture at the court of Valois BurgundyOrder of the Golden Fleece
Dynamics in the delta. The county of Holland and the art of painting in the late Middle Agges
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      Medieval HistoryMedieval StudiesLate MedievalCourts and Elites (History)
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      Late Middle AgesGenealogyCourtsLate Medieval
Two 15th c. Alexander tapestries in the Doria Pamphilij Collection in Genoa.
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      IconographyAlexander the GreatTapestryIconography and Iconology
A transcription of Alexander Agricola's office hymn to the Virgin Mary, "Ave maris stella." Note the canonic inner tenor voices. This is one of Agricola's unicum. For a recording and score video see the link below:... more
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      Art HistoryMedieval Art15th Century BurgundyBurgundian Low Countries
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      Military HistoryLate Middle AgesMedieval HistoryMedieval Studies
Am Beginn des 15. Jahrhunderts experimentierten Goldschmiede mit einer neuen Technik – Maleremail auf Körperschmelz. Becher und Kästchen in dieser Technik wurden wegen der Komplexität ihrer Herstellung als unnachahmbar betrachtet und in... more
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      Art HistoryLate Middle AgesGothic StudiesIslamic Art
The exhibition presents three of the circa twenty extant works by Jan van Eyck, offering a glimpse of the art produced during the reign of Duke Philipp the Good, when the Burgundian Low Countries witnessed a unique flowering of courtly... more
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      15th Century BurgundyJan Van EyckExhibitionsCulture at the court of Valois Burgundy
In de periode 1431-1559 bouwde de Orde van het Gulden Vlies onder Filips de Goede tot aan Filips II aan een corpus van 23 series Gulden-Vliesborden. Series wapenborden, embleemborden, tekstborden en jaarborden die herinnerden aan het... more
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      Heraldry15th Century BurgundyBooksBurgundian Low Countries
Pour la première fois en France, des chercheurs spécialistes de la fin du Moyen Âge se sont rassemblés pour discuter et proposer des clefs de lecture permettant de saisir l’essence d’un classique au succès international : L’Automne du... more
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      Medieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryMedieval French LiteratureMedieval Historiography
This article discusses the material and spatial features of the tournaments on the Grote Markt, the central market square in Brussels, in the fifteenth and first half of the sixteenth century. It investigates how the tournament acquired... more
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      Military HistoryLate Middle AgesMedieval HistorySpatial Practices
Reseña de la novela "Intriga en Borgoña. El collar de la duquesa Margarita. Un aventurero al servicio del arzobispo Dietrich von Mörs, escrita por el profesor Antonio Candeloro.
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      Medieval LiteratureMedieval HistoryLiteratureMedieval Studies
Depuis le XIIe siècle et à l’époque moderne, au sein des cours princières et ecclésiastiques, des savoirs situés à la frontière entre le licite et l’illicite, tels que l’astrologie, la divination et la magie, ont occupé une place centrale... more
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      Medieval LiteratureMedieval HistoryMedieval StudiesHistory of Science
Artykuł został poświęcony jednemu z możnych burgundzkich w służbie księcia gniewkowskiego Władysława Białego, o imieniu Jean de Pontoiller.
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      Burgundian historyValois BurgundyCulture at the court of Valois BurgundyKsięstwo Gniewkowskie
A version of a paper presented in 2005 to the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Painter Antoine Trouvéon was sent by Leonor of Austria to paint her daughter in Lisbon in 1542. Leonor of... more
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      French HistoryFrench StudiesRenaissance StudiesRenaissance Art
(For illustrations please see the accompanying Powerpoint). In the Huntington Library’s copy of the first book printed in English is a unique engraved frontispiece. In what may perhaps be the only contemporary portrait of William... more
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      Medieval Studies15th Century Netherlandish Art15th Century BurgundyPatronage (Medieval Studies)