Princes and Princely Culture 1450-1650, Volume 1

This book contains thirteen essays on European princes and princely culture between 1450 and 1650. Many products of medieval and renaissance culture – literature, music, political ideology, social and governmental structures, the fine arts, and even forms of devotional practice – found their best expression in the context of the courts of greater and lesser princes. This volume, the first of two concentrating on the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Era, has essays on selected courts north of the Alps and the Pyrenees: the court of Burgundy under the Valois dukes, that of France under Catherine de Médicis and of Henry IV, that of Scotland under Jameses III, IV, V, VI and of Mary, Queen of Scots, that of Margaret of Austria at Mechelen, of Scandinavia, of Heidelberg under Frederick the Victorious and Philip the Upright, and that of Maximilian I.Contributors include: Gayle K. Brunelle, Dagmar Eichberger, Annette Finley-Croswhite, Martin Gosman, Margriet Hoogvliet, Michael Lynch, Alasdair A. MacDonald, Olaf Mörke, Jan-Dirk Müller, Rita Schlusemann, Alan Swanson, Arjo Vanderjagt, and Janet Hadley Williams.

"…the editors are to be congratuled in putting together and impressive array of essays...this is a valuable and erudite book that brings together much recent and exciting scholarship and offers many precious and refresing insights." Nicole Hochner, Renaissance Quarterly. "Recommended." J.P. Huffmann, Choice, 2004.

Martin Gosman, Ph.D. (1982) is Professor of Romance Languages and Literature at the University of Groningen. He has published many articles on the medieval Alexander and on ideas of political power in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe. His most recent monograph is La legende d’Alexandre le Grand dans la littérature française du 12e siècle (1997). He is the editor (with Volker Honemann) of Kultureller Wandel vom Mittelalter zur Frühen Neuzeit and of Groningen Studies in Cultural Change.Alasdair MacDonald, Ph.D. (1978) is Professor of Medieval English Language and Literature at the University of Groningen. He has published widely on the medieval and renaissance literature and culture of Scotland and England. He is the co-editor of The Renaissance in Scotland: Studies in Literature, Religion, History and Culture (1994) and of A Palace in the Wild: Essays on Vernacular Culture and Humanism (2000).Arjo Vanderjagt, Ph.D. (1981) is Professor of the History of Ideas and of Medieval Studies at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on the anthropology of the Church Fathers, the thought of Anselm of Canterbury, the political ideology of the fifteenth-century dukes of Burgundy, and on Northern Humanism. His latest book is a translation into Dutch of Anselm’s De casu diaboli, with introductions and commentary (2002).