Burgundy and the Empire in the Reign of Charles the Bold

Studies of the four dukes of Valois have been written by French, Belgian, English, and American authors such as Vaughan, Calmette, Bonenfant, Barrier, and Paravicini.1 The relations between Charles and the Empire remain, however, an object of mainly German scholarship, perhaps because the most important sources have been edited in the series Deutsche Reichstagsakten of the Historische Kommission bei Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Unfortunately, volume 23, edited by H. Heimpel of Gottingen, dealing with the diets after 1470 and concerned with the crucial period of German-Burgundian relations, has not yet appeared. Despite this, important work has already been published by Heimpel, H. Gruneisen, and most recently by H. Gilliam.2 The relationship between Charles the Bold and the Empire, that is between the duke on the one hand and the emperor and the German

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