Tag Archives: Froissart Chronicles

collecting is only humanist

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Dave

The great books of Greece and Rome were written down between 800 B.C. and A.D. 450. They were first printed and disseminated only after A.D. 1450. Once printed, they were likely to survive only because they were so good or … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bibliothea Corviniana, Flavius Josephus, Froissart Chronicles, Grand Seraglio Istanbul, Homer Iliad, Janos Vitez, Janus Pannonius, jean fouquet, Jean Froissart Chronicles, King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King Matthias of Hungary, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Niccolo Niccoli, Ottoman Empire European Wars, Petrarca Trionfi, poggio bracciolini | Leave a comment

on the block

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Dave

Fiesty monks. Fighting monks and battling friars. Jerusalem had been lost for good in 1244 and in 1291, Acre, the chief remaining fortress of the Crusaders and their last seat of government, fell to the enemy after a siege of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Black Death, foulques de villaret, Froissart Chronicles, gustave wappers, John Langstrother, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pinturicchio paintings, Poll Tax England, Robert Hales, Robert Hales beheaded, War of the Roses, Wat Tyler Uprising | Leave a comment

FAIR PLAY & The Knight Riders: HAVE LANCE WILL TRAVEL

Posted on December 26, 2010 by Dave

If you’re not cheating you’re not trying. ….The spirit of fair play entered civilization when the tournament changed from a brutal, deadly combat to a mimic war ruled by the laws of chivalry… About the middle of May in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Bertrand Du Guesclin, Duke of Lancaster, Froissart Chronicles, Geoffrey de Preuilly, Jean Froissart, jousting tournaments, Medieval jousting, Sir Nicholas Dagworth, Wil McLean, Will McLean | 2 Comments

A FALLING TIDE LIFTS ALL EGOS

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Dave

there were some wild times in Bruges. It was a city that had the virtue of living dangerously for a while. Their innovations on medieval financing through the Bill of Exchange and expertise as serving as a market maker that … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Baldwin Iron Arm, Bruges, Charles the Bold, Froissart Chronicles, Gerard David, Hans Memling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, History of Bruges, Isabella of Portugal, James M. Murray, Jan van Eyck, Jean C. Wilson, Jean Froissart, Madame de Beaugrant, Marc Boone, Morris L. Cohen, Philip the Good, Southey, Victor Hugo, William Wordsworth | Leave a comment

BLOOD & CHOCOLATE

Posted on May 19, 2010 by Dave

What the tides created, the tides destroyed. It left a silt bound city that has hardly changed since the time of its glory as a trading port of the Middle Ages. If Bruges had not existed, it might have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Baldwin Iron Arm, Battle of the Golden Spurs, Book of Hours Bruges, Charles the Bald, Froissart Chronicles, George William Thomson Omond, Groening Museum, Guillaume Moreel, Hans Memling, History of Bruges, Jean de Navarre, Jean Froissart, John Ruskin, John Schofield, Lewis Mumford, Michael Wheeler, Pieter van Eyck, Pope Boniface VII | Leave a comment

JOUSTING BETWEEN VENUS AND MARS

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Dave

Though presumably he made neither love nor war, he thoroughly approved of both and took them as subjects for his Chronicles, that grand and noble history of his time, the waning middle ages. Jean Froissart, the poet priest, has imposed … Continue reading →