商品簡介
In these eight essays from a variety of disciplines, contributors describe how nations are built, often from very fragile material indeed. Topics include the state ideology of the councils of the Burgundian dukes, the use of the Order of the Golden Fleece to create Burgundian national identity, the importance of the theory and practice of chivalry, the rhetoric and politics of the speeches of Fillastre and their value as propaganda, Burgundian ideologies and the prestige of Wauquelin's prose translations, the uses of saints and kings to dukes and counts, the literature of self-determination, and the multiplicity of the unity thought to be of the Low Countries. Annotation c2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Jonathan Boulton is Associate Professor of History and Fellow of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame (USA).Jan R. Veenstra teaches the history of medieval and renaissance philosophy at the University of Groningen (Netherlands).
