The Burgundians

The story of the Burgundian elite and its remarkable court and culture unfolds as a medieval and early modern epic of dynastic struggle, artistic achievement and eventual extinction. This comprehensive history canvasses a thousand years of ambitious aristocrats, family tensions, brutal warfare and lavish luxury, while tracing how the decline of knightly ideals gave way to rising urban influence and individualism. Spanning the region between France and Germany, with close ties to the English crown, Burgundy’s rise and fall shaped the Low Countries — today’s Belgium and the Netherlands — and its cultural legacy persists in art, architecture and music born from turmoil and reconciliation alike. The book offers a detailed narrative of dynastic rivalries, political maneuvering, spectacular battles and marriages that changed the map of northern Europe, presented as a readable history that also serves as cultural history.

Authored by Bart Van Loo, with translation by Nancy Forest Flier, this edition presents a masterful account of a storied dynasty. It draws on centuries of chronicles and artifacts to illuminate how a powerful court influenced regional identity, urban development and cultural flourishing in a tumultuous era. The work is documented as a substantial, 624-page volume originally published in 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing UK.

Kenmerken

• Dynastic struggles and court life
• Cultural history: art, architecture, music
• Briljant, turbulent medieval to early modern era
• Cradle of the Low Countries’ identity
• Geopolitical landscape between France, Germany en Engeland
• Uitgebreide narrative van 1000 jaar geschiedenis