Origins and early career (c.1414-1446); the courtier; the chronicler and "indiciare"; the making of the Chronicle; reading the Chronicle; the audience of the chronicle. Appendices: The manuscripts - a codicological survey; an anomalous work and its context.
A solid, thorough...scholarly work, firmly rooted in the
manuscripts and in Chastellain's chosen genre... The last work, at
least for a while, on Chastelain. SPECULUM Small shows himself as
fine a master of codicology as of prosopography and the operation
of patronage networks... dense, rewarding, and often fascinating
reading. The importance of the book derives from the subtlety,
novelty, and sustained vigour of its quest to site accurately
Chastelain and his chronicle in their contemporary cultural
perspective, and from the light thus thrown on the issue of the
evolution of a `Burgundian state'... Emphatically, an important and
original study. MEDIUM AEVUM [M H Keen] This important book
significantly revises our understanding of George Chastelain's
career and achievement... A work of careful, exact research that
must be read by all students of late medieval state formation and
historical writing in the Burgundian domains and France. AMERICAN
HISTORICAL REVIEW Unquestionably warrants inclusion in all serious
libraries.
*EUROPEAN STUDIES JOURNAL*
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