The Court as a Stage
England and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9798477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grant Richardson (0000-0002-7618-6687, St Mary's University Twickenham London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 499 |
| Pages | 1388-1389 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-21 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/cem345 |
| OpenAlex | W2076503119 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
As the editors of this volume of essays rightly note in their introduction, court history is no longer relegated to the margins in writing the history of the age of personal monarchy. Yet, as they also observe, it both benefits and suffers from the eclecticism of approaches that characterise it. Some institutional studies have defined the court as simply the prince's household but this has proved too narrow to allow proper discussion of the complexity and diversity of its functions within princely regimes. Other studies have identified the court as being almost synonymous with the entire ‘political nation’ under investigation and thus have been too amorphous to be of much use. Moreover, much of this work has, wittingly or otherwise, cast the evolution of princely courts in terms derived from nineteenth-century perceptions of society and statecraft. Assembling the evidence from the English and a number of Burgundian and Habsburg courts, the editors of this volume suggest a new approach. Rather than attempting a re-definition of the court, they propose ‘the stage’ as a metaphor or medium for better understanding the roles and significance of this key institution of late-medieval and early-modern governance
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Noble Identity and Culture. Recent Historiography on the Nobility in the Medieval Low Countries III
Medieval Virtues as Public Values? The Burgeoning Public Sector and the Articulation of Public Values in Late Medieval Holland
From periphery to centre and back again
The town as a stage? Urban space and tournaments in late medieval Brussels
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2008 - 2022 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |