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Hainaut, la terre et les hommes
Historien universitaire de renomme?e nationale et internationale, Jean-Marie Cauchies a toujours conserve? un vif inte?re?t pour l?histoire locale, celle de son Hainaut natal en particulier. Pour lui, l?ancrage local est le socle sur lequel peuvent s?appuyer les œuvres plus ge?ne?rales, les synthe?ses, bre?ves ou amples.0C?est pourquoi il est fortement implique? depuis plus de 40 ans dans les activite?s et la gestion de plusieurs socie?te?s d?histoire locale (Saint-Ghislain, Mons, Soignies, Binche, Valenciennes?) et a tre?s souvent occupe? la tribune des cercles d?histoire hainuyers pour des confe?rences dont le fond et la forme n?ont cesse? de charmer les auditoires.0Jean-Marie Cauchies es...
The Fullness of Time
Over the course of the fifteenth century, the Low Countries transformed Europe's economic, political and cultural life. Innovative and influential cultural practices emerged across the region in flourishing courts, towns, religious houses, guilds and confraternities. Whether in visual culture, music, devotional practice, or communal rituals, the thriving cultures of the Low Countries wrestled with time, both through explicit measurement and reflection, and in the rhythms of social and religious life. This book offers a deeper understanding of how time was structured and experienced by different constituencies through a series of detailed readings of diverse cultural objects and practices, ranging from woodcuts and painted altarpieces, to early print books, and to the use of polyphony in the liturgy. Individual chapters are devoted to life in the university towns of Louvain and Ghent, the liturgical rituals at Cambrai Cathedral, and the rich pageantry that marked the courts of Philip the Good and the new Burgundian rulers. What emerges is a complex temporal landscape in which devotional and secular practices and experiences merged into a new "fullness of time."
The Reformation of the Twelfth Century
A study of the changes in religious thought and institutions c. 1180-c. 1280.
Early Modern Sovereignties
The essays in this volume explore the theories and practices of sovereignty in the context of state-building in the early modern Northern and Southern Low Countries. The book approaches this historical debate from three angles: (1) political theoretical, (2) legal, and (3) politico-historical.
La Législation princière pour le comté de Hainaut
La législation des anciens princes a suscité au cours des dernières année un intérêt croissant, en Belgique et dans les pays voisins. Ce livre en témoigne. Il tente de situer l'activité législative dans un cadre géographique et chronologique bien déterminé en exploitant non seulement les textes des édits, mais aussi une grande variété de sources dites " de la pratique " : comptes, correspondances, registres de délibérations. Il entend ainsi mieux rencontrer les hommes et leurs problèmes quotidiens. Le travail porte sur près de 1.800 actes ducaux et archiducaux. Il les étudie d'abord sous l'angle de la diplomatique; il cherche aussi à déceler, en dépassant l'analyse for...
The Artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy, 1363-1477
A major new exploration of the history and development of gunpowder weapons in the 15th century based on the artillery of the Dukes of Burgundy. The four Valois Dukes of Burgundy created, in little more than a century, a fabulously wealthy and independent state. Their centralised control and chancellery have bequeathed to us a vast treasure trove of documents, including accounts and inventories of the Masters of the artillery under the later Dukes. Although many of these were extracted and transcribed in the late nineteenth century, modern historians have largely ignored their unprecedented insights into fifteenth-century guns and their use. When Charles the Bold, the last Valois Duke, took ...
A Chivalric Life
First English translation of the chivalric biography of the foremost knight of the late Middle Ages.
Unions and Divisions
Providing a comprehensive and engaging account of personal unions, composite monarchies and multiple rule in premodern Europe: Unions and Divisions. New Forms of Rule in Medieval and Renaissance Europe uses a comparative approach to examine the phenomena of the medieval and renaissance unions in a pan-European overview. In the later Middle Ages, genealogical coincidences led to caesuras in various dynastic successions. Solutions to these were found, above all, in new constellations which saw one political entity becoming co-managed by the ruler of another in the form of a personal union. In the premodern period, such solutions were characterised by two factors in particular: on the one hand,...
The Power of Place
This volume explores the nature of power - the power of kings, emperors and popes - through the places that these rulers created or developed, including palaces, cities, landscapes, holy places, inauguration sites and burial places. Ranging across all of Europe from the 1st to the 16th centuries, David Rollason examines how these places conveyed messages of power and what those messages were.
