Philip the Good: The Apogee of Burgundy

484 Pages·1970·12.778 MB·English

by  Richard Vaughan

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i. Philip the Good
Philip the Good
THE APOGEE OF BURGUNDY
RICHARD VAUGHAN
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Contents
Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgements xv
A Note on Coinage and Moneys of Account xvii
1. Burgundy, England and France: 1419-35 i
2. Conquest and Expansion: 1420-33 29
3. The Critical Decade: 1430-40 54
4. Burgundy, France and England: 1435-49 9$
5. The Duke and his Court 127
6. The Government at Work 164
7. Philip the Good and the Church 205
8. Economic Affairs 239
9. The Mediterranean, Luxembourg and the Empire:
1440-54 268
10. The Ghent War: 1449-53 303
11. Burgundy, France and the Crusade: 1454-64 334
12. The Close of the Reign: 1464-7 373
Bibliography 401
Index 435

Plates
i. Philip the Good. By courtesy of the Dijon Museum (Photograph
by Giraudon) Frontispiece
2. Presentation of the Chroniques de Hainault to Philip the Good in
the presence of Charles, count of Charolais, Nicolas Rolin and
other courtiers. By courtesy of the Bibliothèque Royale, Brussels
(Photograph by Giraudon) Facing page 62
3. Isabel of Portugal, duchess of Burgundy. By courtesy of the
Louvre, Paris (Photograph by Giraudon) 63
4. Nicolas Rolin, chancellor of Burgundy (detail), Jan van Eyck. By
courtesy of the Louvre, Paris (Photograph by Giraudon) 94
5. Jacqueline of Bavaria, countess of Hainault and duchess of
Brabant. By courtesy of the State Museum, Copenhagen 95
6. Anthony, Grand Bastard of Burgundy. By courtesy of the
Musée Condé, Chantilly (Photograph by Giraudon) 190
7. Letter of Philip the Good to Charles, duke of Orleans, with auto­
graphed postscript. By courtesy of the Bibliothèque Nationale,
Paris (ms. fr. 5041, f. 18) 191
8. Philip the Good and Charles the Rash. Recueil d’Arras. By
courtesy of the Arras Museum (Photograph by Giraudon) 222
9. King Charles VII of France (detail), Jehan Fouquet. By courtesy
of the Louvre, Paris (Photograph by Giraudon) 223