Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century

Introduction: The 'Long Luxembourg Century' (1308-1437): Courtly Networks, Cultural Politics, Dynastic Legacy
Karl Kuegle, Ingrid Ciulisova, Vaclav Zurek

PART I: John the Blind and his Progeny in France
1. 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 Fantysova Matejkova
3. The Vyssi Brod Cycle and its Anonymous Painter: French and Bohemian Court Circles in the 1340s - Lenka Panuskova

PART II: Marvelous Objects and Culture at the Court of Charles IV
4. Charles of Luxembourg and his Reliquary Cross: the Significance of Precious Stones - Ingrid Ciulisova
5. Charles IV and the Patronage of Multilingual Literature at his Court and Beyond - Vaclav Zurek
6. Miraculous Objects and Foundational Sins: Verbal and Material Reality in the Dalimil Chronicle, the Chronicle of Pribik Pulkava of Radenin, and Charles IV's Autobiography - Matous Jaluska

PART III: Wenceslas and Sigismund: Art, Politics, and Diplomacy
7. The Making of the Wenceslas Bible, with Special Consideration of the Theological Concept of its Genesis Initial - Maria Theisen
8. The Naked King: Representing Wenceslas in his Illuminated Bible - Gia Toussaint
9. Dealing with the Luxembourg Court: Ellwangen Abbey and their Imperial Overlord - Mark Whelan
10. Assessing the Luxembourgs: The Image of Wenceslas and Sigismund in the Correspondence of Italian Ambassadors - Ondrej Schmidt

PART IV: Studying the Luxembourgs: What has been Neglected
11. Heiresses, Regents, and Patrons: Female Rulers in the Age of the Luxembourgs - Julia Burkhardt
12. Image-making, image-breaking, and the Luxembourg Monarchy - Len Scales
13. The Absent Present: Luxembourg Courts, their Cultures, and Music Histor(iograph)y - Karl Kuegle

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• História social e cultural
• História Medieval
• Estudos literários: clássica, primitiva e medieval
• História da Europa

Guillaume de Machaut; Vyssi Brod cycle; Charles IV; Wenceslas Bible; Ellwangen Abbey; Henry VII; Sigismund; Jobst of Moravia; John of Bohemia; Charles V; Charles VI; Habsburgs; Wittelsbachs; Valois; Plantagenet; Anjou; Luxembourg dynasty; Emperor Charles IV; Medieval patronage; Medieval court; Bohemia; Prague; Sigismund of Luxembourg