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John Dunstable
John Dunstable , c.1385-1453, English composer. Dunstable is thought to have accompanied his patron, the duke of Bedford, to France. About 60 of his works—nearly all sacred pieces—are extant. He was among the first composers to begin to unify the musical setting of the Mass. Dunstable wa... Read more
Charles VI
Charles VI (Charles the Mad or Charles the Well Beloved), 1368-1422, king of France (1380-1422), son and successor of King Charles V. During his minority he was under the tutelage of his uncles (particularly Philip the Bold , duke of Burgundy), whose policies drained the royal treasury and provoke... Read more
Louis Orléans, duc d'
Louis Orléans, duc d' , 1372-1407, brother of King Charles VI of France, whose chief counselor he was from 1388 to 1392. After 1392, when Charles VI suffered his first attack of insanity, Louis became involved in a long struggle for control with his uncle, Philip the Bold of Burgundy, and... Read more
Clovis I
Clovis I , c.466-511, Frankish king (481-511), son of Childeric I and founder of the Merovingian monarchy. Originally little more than a tribal chieftain, he became sole leader of the Salian Franks by force of perseverance and by murdering a number of relatives. In 486 he defeated the Roman legion... Read more
Cluny
Cluny , former abbey, E France, in the present Saône-et-Loire dept., founded (910) by St. Berno, a Burgundian monk and reformer. Cluny was one of the chief religious and cultural centers of Europe. The third abbey church built on the site, Cluny III (11th cent.), was designed in the mature Rom... Read more
Guillaume Dufay
Guillaume Dufay , c.1400-1474, principal composer at the Burgundian court. After his early training in the cathedral choir at Cambrai, he sang in the papal chapel in Rome (1428-33) and later in Florence and Bologna (1435-37). He was in the service of the antipope Felix V for seven years and was a ca... Read more
Dijon
Dijon , city (1990 pop. 151,636), capital of Côte-d'Or dept., E France, the old capital of Burgundy . It is a transportation hub and industrial center with food, metal-products, and electronics industries. Its mustard and cassis (black currant liqueur) are famous, and Dijon is also an importa... Read more
Beauvais
Beauvais , town (1990 pop. 56,278), capital of Oise dept., N France. Tractors, ceramic tiles, textiles, and musical instruments are among its many manufactures. A Roman town and an early episcopal see, it flourished in the Middle Ages and again after the 17th cent., when Colbert established the stat... Read more
Grenoble
Grenoble , city (1990 pop. 153,973), capital of Isère dept., SE France, on the Isère River at the foot of the Alps. It is the hydroelectric center of France and has an important nuclear-research center. Metals, electrical equipment, chemicals, and food products are the chief manufactur... Read more
Charles Orléans, duc d'
Charles Orléans, duc d' , 1391-1465, French prince and poet; nephew of King Charles VI . After the assassination of his father, Louis d' Orléans , he became (1407) titular head of the Armagnacs (see Armagnacs and Burgundians ). After the English invasion of France in 1415, Charles wa... Read more

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Burgundians
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Burgundians ETHNONYM: Bourguignons...but from the Germanic Burgundian kings, who ruled the...Linguistic Affiliation. Burgundians speak French, although...twelfth century; a sonorous Burgundian r contrasts with the Parisian...
Armagnacs and Burgundians
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Armagnacs and Burgundians opposing factions that fought to...followers of the duke of Burgundy, or Burgundians, were allied with members of the...The conflict between Armagnacs and Burgundians thus became part of the Hundred Years...
Burgundy
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...reunite with the other former Burgundian territories in the empire...Calvinist faith, which most Burgundians, like most French Catholics...in some of the principal Burgundian towns by 1560, and tensions...in the early 1560s. Most Burgundians had supported the attempts...
Germanic laws
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Romanorum ) in the Gothic and Burgundian kingdoms and was applied...adopted (c.501) for Burgundians and for cases involving both Burgundians and Romans, while the...only to the Romans in the Burgundian kingdom. Because of a...
Charles VI
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...sought control. The Burgundian faction was led by the...became leader of the Burgundians and continued their...1410 caused both the Burgundian and Armagnac factions...France in 1415, the Burgundians allied with the invaders...
Charles the Bold
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...from 1467 to 1477. During his life the Burgundian state reached the height of its political...thereby reopened the threat of an Anglo-Burgundian alliance, a diplomatic maneuver which...s attempts to foment rebellion in Burgundian territories precisely at the moment...
Joan of Arc
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...England invaded France on the Burgundian side in 1415 and inflicted...same year. The English and Burgundians entered Paris in 1418, and...Fearless in 1419 strengthened Burgundian hatred for the Armagnac faction...threatened with Anglo-Burgundian invasion, and taunted with...
Charles the Bold (Burgundy) (1433–1477)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...artillery fire allowed them to reach the Burgundian lines and rout them. While Charles...into battle. Badly outnumbering the Burgundians, the Swiss routed them on 5 January...marry his young son Charles. Being a Burgundian, however, she refused with disdain...
Henry V
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...dominated in 1410-11. In favoring the Burgundians rather than the Armagnacs in France (see Armagnacs and Burgundians ), he disagreed with the king, and...and extended his agreement with the Burgundians. In 1417 he led another expedition...
Clovis I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Thuringians. After his marriage (493) to the Burgundian princess Clotilda , a Catholic, he had...Christianity against the Arian heretics, the Burgundians, and the Visigoths. He attacked the Burgundians (500) at Dijon and the Visigoths (507...

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Street, George Edmund
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture ...Street's interest in French First Pointed Gothic of the Burgundian type, his magisterial and cleverly planned Royal Courts of...1866–81), was an accomplished synthesis of Burgundian French, English, and Italian Gothic, one of the last great...
Carnot, Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...notary, was among the considerable bourgeois of the small Burgundian town of Nolay in the vicinity of Beaune though on the wrong...Engineers, the Mar é chal de Vauban (like Carnot a Burgundian), whose theory and practice of fortification and siege...
Passport to Pimlico
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Place in Pimlico suddenly discover that they are legally Burgundians when a wartime bomb accidentally explodes revealing the treasures...Burgundy and the lease that claims this piece of British soil as Burgundian. This narrative conceit produces circumstances which suggest...
Commines, Philippe de
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Philippe de ) ( c. 1447–1511) French historian. Born in Flanders, the son of a noble Burgundian commander, he was raised at the Burgundian court, joined Louis XI of France in 1472, and was later disgraced for plotting against Charles...
France
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...occupation. After 330 it was invaded by GOTHS , FRANKS , and Burgundians, and then ruled by Clovis (465–511), a MEROVINGIAN...permanently unified state until the ejection of the English and the Burgundians at the end of the Middle Ages. Under the VALOIS and BOURBON...
Burgundy, House of
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...allied with England, which was at war with France (it was Burgundians who captured Joan of Arc in 1430 and sold her to the English...continuing war against England. There was military action in Burgundian territory for about a decade after this, but the later years...
Philip the Good
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...bishoprics of Liège, Cambrai, and Utrecht were under Burgundian control. Some were his by inheritance, others had come...forces to wage war on England. The imposition of taxes on the Burgundians provoked a rebellion, led by Ghent, but the rebels (of...
Du Fay, Guillaume
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...staying until 1433. Sang in the papal chapel. Met Binchois in 1434. Returned to Cambrai 1439. His connection with the Burgundian court is now thought to have been unlikely. Was most acclaimed comp. of 15th cent. Nearly 200 of his works have survived...
muscular Gothic
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture muscular Gothic. Phase of the Gothic Revival that embraced a primitive, early First Pointed style derived from Burgundian Gothic of C13: it employed polychrome brickwork, massive, cylindrical piers , and chunky elements, and was bold, broad...
Kriemhild
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Kriemhild in the Nibelungenlied , a Burgundian princess, wife of Siegfried and later of Etzel (Attila the Hun), whom she marries in order to be revenged on her brothers for Siegfried's murder. Her Norse equivalent is Gudrun .

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The Promised Lands: The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...Promised Lands: The Low Countries under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530. By Wim Blockmans...the once-important and influential Burgundian state. In The Promised Lands, Wim...death in 1530. During this period, the Burgundian rulers used diverse means--including...
Burgundian regionalism and French republican commercial culture at the 1937 Paris International Exposition.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Cultural Analysis; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...this article examines the Burgundian presence at the 1937 Paris...century, my analysis of Burgundian regionalism examines how...French Modernization and Burgundian Regionalism The point is...Interwar Burgundy. Interwar Burgundians consciously exploited folk...
Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late Medieval Ghent.(Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...ritual and symbolism of the late medieval Burgundian court in the southern Low Countries...grasped one of the central pillars of the Burgundian state," but by perceiving symbols...unlock the cultural significance of Burgundian ceremony"(3). Equipped with insights...
Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, ca. 1025-1098. (Reviews of Books).
Magazine article from: Albion; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; W. Scott Jessee. Robert the Burgundian and the Counts of Anjou, ca...Jessee's study of Robert the Burgundian challenges the same thesis in a...Rechin, Jessee argues, Robert the Burgundian and other Angevin domini "maintained...
Patronage and the Burgundian court (1364-1419).
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...in just over a century. The dukes' Burgundian lands reverted to the French crown while...scholarship has been devoted to aspects of the Burgundian dukes' patronage. Indeed, 2004 marks...of particular artists in fostering a Burgundian court style. Another product of this...
The fabric of society: textile and metatextual imitation in the Burgundian Cliges (1454).
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...apparently minor changes made by the Burgundian author to Chretien's text allow the...output of the mid-fifteenth-century Burgundian court under Philip the Good (1419...which would prove locally confusing to a Burgundian readership unattuned to their significance...
Richard Vaughan, The Dukes of Burgundy. Philip the Bold: the Formation of the Burgundian State; John the Fearless: the Growth of Burgundian Power; Philip the Good: the Apogee of Burgundy; Charles the Bold: the Last Valois Duke of Burgundy.(Shorter Notices)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 9/22/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...formation, and eventual collapse, of the Burgundian state under these four Valois dukes; and Burgundian scholars wanting to own copies of Vaughan...reissue by a leading scholar in the field of Burgundian studies--Malcolm Vale, Bertrand Schnerb...
Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...Andrea Pearson. Envisioning Gender in Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience...as evidence of effort on the part of Burgundian duchesses to deal with the male power...manuscripts in the education of girls at the Burgundian court is traced, beginning with the...
Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court.(Early Music)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 6/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court. By Honey Meconi. Oxford; New...Rue becomes a member of the Hapsburg-Burgundian chapel, the doppelganger problem disappears...Chapelle and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court" (chap. 2) is an excellent...
BURGUNDIAN CONSORT CONCERT SATURDAY AT PUC
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 2/19/1988; 279 words ; ...medieval here. But they just seem to get better with time. The Burgundian Consort, a professional ensemble which performs Middle Ages...Saturday. The concert is free and open to the public. The Burgundian Consort performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in PUC's Alumni...