COURT AND CIVIC SOCIETY

This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizingas famous study of t he Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources t hat Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic inter action between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the bo ok tests ...[Read more]