Tag Archives: Jean Froissart

black plague & neurotic gloom: no belief no deny

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Dave

Skepticism and timorous uncertainty marked the second half of the fourteenth century.The generation that survived the plague could not believe, but did not dare deny. It groped toward the future, with one nervous eye always peering over its shoulder toward … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Daniel Defoe, E.L. Skip Knox, Giovanni Boccaccio, Hans Holbein the younger, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, John Wycliffe, Melissa Snell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Sick House movie, 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

RITUAL & POMP WITH THE SUN KING:WHO WILL REMOVE THE ROYAL DUNG?

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Dave

We know a vast amount of what went on in Versailles at the court of the Louis XIV, especially between the years 1691 and 1723, when the French monarchy, having reached the apogee of its power, was descending and slowly … Continue reading →

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walk on gilted splinters

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Dave

Philip the Bold, youngest of King John II’s four brothers and his father’s favorite, was robust, but dark complexioned and certanly not handsome. He had marked features and a jutting chin, which persisted among his distant descendants as the Hapsburg … Continue reading →

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TOO MUCH IS NEVER ENOUGH

Posted on May 23, 2010 by Dave

Somehow once the idea got around, started circulating,it became an axiom of faith that a prince’s duty is magnificence. The four sons of King John took up their noble burdens with a tasteful zeal.It was buy cheap and sell high, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Charlemagne, Donald Maddox, Girard d'Orleans, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, Jonathan Jones Guardian, King Charles V, Louvre museum, Peter Paul Rubens, Shelley Williams, The Hundred Years War, Titian, William Robertson | Leave a comment

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 →

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GODLESS GOLDEN RULE

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Dave

Marcel Proust’s Paris aristocracy: perpetually engaged for dinner, decorative, idle and dangerous for social climbers. In Proust’s ”Remembrance of Things Past” , what lent the aristocrats of the Faubourg Saint-Germain their luster was precisely their ”famous and poetic” names , … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Edmund Wilson, Francois Mauriac, French Literature, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, George Painter, Harry Levin, Howard Moss, Jean Froissart, Jean Froissart Chronicles, Marcel Proust | 2 Comments

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Dave

”Jean Froissart was born in the 1330s and died after 1404. Although he was formally a clergyman and held various eccesiastical posts, he devoted himself to literature. His works include romance, poetry, and history, and could easily have been written … Continue reading →

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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 →