Culture at the court of Valois Burgundy
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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
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
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
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
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
For a recording and score-video of the piece see the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTtLNfq0x0
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
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
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
For a recording and score video, see the link here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTtLNfq0x0
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nac6QU2rhGQ
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Paper on the continuation of regional historiography in Brabant, Hainault and Holland in the decades following the Burgundian unification of the Low Countries
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
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
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
Dynamics in the delta. The county of Holland and the art of painting in the late Middle Agges
Two 15th c. Alexander tapestries in the Doria Pamphilij Collection in Genoa.
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
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
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
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
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
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
Artykuł został poświęcony jednemu z możnych burgundzkich w służbie księcia gniewkowskiego Władysława Białego, o imieniu Jean de Pontoiller.
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
(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