By Malcolm Vale
During this enticing paintings, Malcolm Vale units out to recapture the elegance of courtroom 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 means of that of the courts of the dukes of Burgundy. the result's a desirable evaluate of the character and position of the court docket in ecu heritage, and a party of a forgotten age.
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Italics mine. 12 14 noted were perhaps more of degree than of real substance. They involved the movement ‘out of court’ of certain officers and departments, and the substitution of others in their place. 17 Under Edward III, he claimed, ‘worshipfull squiers did this servyse’—in effect, continental European (particularly Burgundian) practices, whereby knights performed these domestic duties, had apparently been introduced at the English court by the fifteenth century. But some aspects of Edward III’s household—as described in the Black Book—would not have been out of place under his grandfather Edward I (–): the payment of ‘wages within court or without’; the distribution of liveries, in cloth and furs, winter and summer; the payment of fees to ‘all astates .
Lxxv, p. : ‘ad respectum multimodum aedificantis palatii de Hagha, quod consilio et cura bonae memoriae magistri Gerardi de Leyden aedificatum est . ’ See also below, pp. –. 59 Philip of Leyden, De Cura, cas. xxviii, pp. –: ‘et intellege palatinum officium notarios, scriptores, clericos epistolarum et registri . ’ (p. 60 Yet the most revealing usage of the term ‘court’ from the non-royal courts of northern France and the Low Countries is to be found in their daily, weekly, and monthly household accounts, on the occasion of feast-days.
38 39 Tout, Chapters, ii. n. . //, fo. r. //, fo. v. 40 W. R. Jones, ‘The Court of the Verge: the jurisdiction of the steward and marshal of the household in later medieval England’, Journal of British Studies, ( – ), –. 41 Tout, Chapters, ii. . ), The English Court, –. 43 But, as already indicated, the most frequently found use of the term ‘court’ at this time in the English financial and administrative records simply refers, almost as a kind of shorthand, to the entourage or assemblage around the king.