George Chastellain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy: Political and Historical Culture at Court in the Fifteenth Century.(Review)

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Graeme Small, George Chastellain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy: Political and Historical Culture at Court in the Fifteenth Century (Woodbridge: Boydell Press; Royal Historical Society Publications, 1997). 302 pp. ISBN 0-86193-237-4. 39.50 [pounds sterling].

In this study of George Chastellain and his chronicle Graeme Small shows himself as fine a master of codicology as of prosopography and the operation of patronage networks; it offers in consequence dense, rewarding, and often fascinating reading. The fascination derives above all from the meticulous ...

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