Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century

Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvKarl Kügle,Ingrid Ciulisová,Václav Žůrek

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The first collection of essays in the English language dedicated to the cultural achievements and politics of one of the most important ruling houses of late medieval Europe. The house of Luxembourg between 1308 and 1437 is best known today for its principal royal and imperial representatives, Henry VII, John the Blind, Charles IV, and Charles's two sons, Wenceslas and Sigismund - a group of rulers who, for better or worse, shaped the political destiny of much of Europe during the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. While some of the Luxembourg cultural legacy can still be experienced directly today in and around Prague and southern Germany, and through the literary and musical works of Machaut, Froissart, and Wolkenstein, it reached much further across Europe: from England to present-day Romania, and from the Baltic Sea to the Italian peninsula, alongside the dynasty's homelands in what is now Luxembourg, Belgium and France. However, this culture has not always attracted the scholarly attention it deserves. This volume explores the pan-European impact and influence of the Luxembourgs in a variety of fields: art and architectural history, material culture, Czech, French, German and Latin text production, gender and intellectual history, and music. Embracing the subject matter from multi-disciplinary and transnational perspectives, the essays here offer new insights into the late medieval cultures of the Luxembourg court. Particular subjects treated include the making of the "Wenceslas Bible"; Machaut at the court of John of Luxembourg; and Charles IV's patronage of multilingual literature.On publication this book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-06
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt832 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor536
FörlagBoydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN9781837650057

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KARL KÜGLE is Director of Research in the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow of Wadham College. INGRID CIULISOVÁ is a Senior Research Fellow in Art History at the Art Research Centre of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and an Associated Professor of the Charles University in Prague. VÁCLAV ŽŮREK is a research fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies Prague, which is part of the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Introduction: The 'Long Luxembourg Century' (1308-1437): Courtly Networks, Cultural Politics, Dynastic LegacyKarl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisová, Václav Žůrek PART I: John the Blind and his Progeny in France1. The 'Luxembourgness' of Things: Machaut C, Glazier 52, and Dynastic Presence in Early Fourteenth-century France - Uri Smilansky 2. Guillaume de Machaut at the court of John of Luxembourg: Defining a Social Milieu - Jana Fantysová Matějková3. The Vyšší Brod Cycle and its Anonymous Painter: French and Bohemian Court Circles in the 1340s - Lenka PanuškováPART II: Marvelous Objects and Culture at the Court of Charles IV4. Charles of Luxembourg and his Reliquary Cross: the Significance of Precious Stones - Ingrid Ciulisová5. Charles IV and the Patronage of Multilingual Literature at his Court and Beyond - Václav Žůrek6. Miraculous Objects and Foundational Sins: Verbal and Material Reality in the Dalimil Chronicle, the Chronicle of Přibík Pulkava of Radenín, and Charles IV's Autobiography - Matouš Jaluška PART III: Wenceslas and Sigismund: Art, Politics, and Diplomacy7. The Making of the Wenceslas Bible, with Special Consideration of the Theological Concept of its Genesis Initial - Maria Theisen8. The Naked King: Representing Wenceslas in his Illuminated Bible - Gia Toussaint9. Dealing with the Luxembourg Court: Ellwangen Abbey and their Imperial Overlord - Mark Whelan10. Assessing the Luxembourgs: The Image of Wenceslas and Sigismund in the Correspondence of Italian Ambassadors - Ondřej Schmidt PART IV: Studying the Luxembourgs: What has been Neglected11. Heiresses, Regents, and Patrons: Female Rulers in the Age of the Luxembourgs - Julia Burkhardt12. Image-making, image-breaking, and the Luxembourg Monarchy - Len Scales13. The Absent Present: Luxembourg Courts, their Cultures, and Music Histor(iograph)y - Karl KügleSelect BibliographyIndex

Zahlreiche, scharfe und ausreichend große Abbildungen lockern die Texte auf; Fußnoten statt Endnoten erleichtern das Nachschlagen; die Texte sind ausgezeichnet redigiert, sprachlich geschliffen und mit Zwischenüberschriften versehen. Letzteres ist dem Rezensenten sehr willkommen, da die Texte etwas lang geraten sind - manchmal bis zu 50 Seiten ohne Bilder. "(Numerous sharp and adequately sized illustrations break up the text; footnotes instead of endnotes simplify referencing; and the texts are excellently edited, linguistically polished, and equipped with subheadings. The latter is particularly appreciated by the reviewer, as the essays tend to be quite lengthy-sometimes up to 50 pages without illustrations.)