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By Malcolm Vale

during this enticing paintings, Malcolm Vale units out to recapture the beauty of court docket tradition in Western Europe through the 13th and fourteenth centuries. Exploring the time among the demise of St Louis and the increase of Burgundian strength within the Low nations, he illuminates a interval within the background of princes and courtroom existence formerly overshadowed by way of that of the courts of the dukes of Burgundy. the result's a desirable evaluate of the character and position of the courtroom in ecu heritage, and a party of a forgotten age.

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