Andrea PEARSON, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Experience, Authority, Resistance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., XIX-236 p. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). ISBN : 0-7546-5154-1. Prix : GBP 49,50.

The manuscripts of Pierre de Luxembourg (c. 1440-1482) and the libraries of the nobility in the Burgundian Low Countries in the second half of the 15th Century This article proposes an initial reconstruction of the library of Pierre de Luxembourg (c. 1440-1482), offspring of one of the most power...

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spelling cairn-RMA_133_0693oRMALe Moyen Âge https://shs.cairn.info/revue-le-moyen-age-2007-3-page-XV?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rma.133.0693o Andrea PEARSON, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Experience, Authority, Resistance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., XIX-236 p. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). ISBN : 0-7546-5154-1. Prix : GBP 49,50. Falque, Ingrid2008 fre Le Moyen Âge | CXIII | 3 | 2008-02-18 | p. XV-XV | 0027-2841 RMA_13362 The manuscripts of Pierre de Luxembourg (c. 1440-1482) and the libraries of the nobility in the Burgundian Low Countries in the second half of the 15th Century This article proposes an initial reconstruction of the library of Pierre de Luxembourg (c. 1440-1482), offspring of one of the most powerful noble families of the Burgundian court and Knight of the Golden Fleece from 1478. This high ranking individual must have owned at least thirty manuscripts. He acquired a third himself and inherited the other two thirds. From the methodological point of view, this is an interesting case. Indeed the cross-checking of leads – heraldic, emblematic, written ex-libris (sometimes later scratched out), inheritances and provenance – enabled links to be made between manuscripts. The reconstruction of the manuscript collection of one individual, who has up to now been completely ignored by studies on the history of libraries, constitutes one more argument in support of the thesis that forming a library was a social duty at the Burgundian court between 1450 and 1490. A nobleman who had spent his youth in the bibliophilic atmosphere of the court of Philip the Good between 1445 and 1467 was duty bound to collect beautiful manuscripts containing texts that were in vogue at the court. If we have little information about many of them, this is due more to a lack of sources rather than any lack of interest in this fashion on their part.Cairn free access
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description The manuscripts of Pierre de Luxembourg (c. 1440-1482) and the libraries of the nobility in the Burgundian Low Countries in the second half of the 15th Century This article proposes an initial reconstruction of the library of Pierre de Luxembourg (c. 1440-1482), offspring of one of the most powerful noble families of the Burgundian court and Knight of the Golden Fleece from 1478. This high ranking individual must have owned at least thirty manuscripts. He acquired a third himself and inherited the other two thirds. From the methodological point of view, this is an interesting case. Indeed the cross-checking of leads – heraldic, emblematic, written ex-libris (sometimes later scratched out), inheritances and provenance – enabled links to be made between manuscripts. The reconstruction of the manuscript collection of one individual, who has up to now been completely ignored by studies on the history of libraries, constitutes one more argument in support of the thesis that forming a library was a social duty at the Burgundian court between 1450 and 1490. A nobleman who had spent his youth in the bibliophilic atmosphere of the court of Philip the Good between 1445 and 1467 was duty bound to collect beautiful manuscripts containing texts that were in vogue at the court. If we have little information about many of them, this is due more to a lack of sources rather than any lack of interest in this fashion on their part.
author Falque, Ingrid
spellingShingle Falque, Ingrid
Andrea PEARSON, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Experience, Authority, Resistance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., XIX-236 p. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). ISBN : 0-7546-5154-1. Prix : GBP 49,50.
author_facet Falque, Ingrid
author_sort Falque, Ingrid
title Andrea PEARSON, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Experience, Authority, Resistance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., XIX-236 p. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). ISBN : 0-7546-5154-1. Prix : GBP 49,50.
title_short Andrea PEARSON, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Experience, Authority, Resistance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., XIX-236 p. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). ISBN : 0-7546-5154-1. Prix : GBP 49,50.
title_full Andrea PEARSON, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Experience, Authority, Resistance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., XIX-236 p. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). ISBN : 0-7546-5154-1. Prix : GBP 49,50.
title_fullStr Andrea PEARSON, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Experience, Authority, Resistance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., XIX-236 p. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). ISBN : 0-7546-5154-1. Prix : GBP 49,50.
title_full_unstemmed Andrea PEARSON, Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530. Experience, Authority, Resistance, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., XIX-236 p. (Women and Gender in the Early Modern World). ISBN : 0-7546-5154-1. Prix : GBP 49,50.
title_sort andrea pearson, envisioning gender in burgundian devotional art, 1350-1530. experience, authority, resistance, aldershot, ashgate, 2005 ; 1 vol., xix-236 p. (women and gender in the early modern world). isbn : 0-7546-5154-1. prix : gbp 49,50.
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