Malcolm Vale is emeritus fellow in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. He has published widely on the political and cultural history of the later Middle Ages. Mario Damen is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam.

presents a direct, refreshing and thought-provoking approach to the subject.

• Introduction: New Histories of the Court - Steven Gunn and Antheun JanseRitual, Ceremony and the `Civilising Process': The Role of the Court, c.1270-1400 - Malcolm ValeCorruption at Court? Crisis and the Theme of luxuria in England and France, c.1340-1422 - C. D. FletcherPatterns in Patronage: Distinction and Imitation in the Patronage of Painted Art by Burgundian Courtiers in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuriesand Early Sixteenth Centuries - Hanno WijsmanThe Nerve Centre of Political Networks? The Burgundian Court and the Integration of Holland and Zeeland into the Burgundian State, 1425-14771425-1477 - Mario DamenAppointment Strategies at the Court of Duke Philip the Good: New Applications of Old Mechanisms - Hanno BrandFor Mutual Benefit? Court and City in the Burgundian Low Countries - Peter StabelMemoirs and the Self-Consciousness of the Court: the Birth of a Genre - D A L MorganThe Court of Henry VII - Steven GunnThe Court, War and Noble Power in England, c.1475-1558 - David GrummittThe Burgundian-Habsburg Court as a Military Institution from Charles the Bold to Philip II - Hans CoolsCultural Life and the Exercise of Power at the Residences of Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, 1512-1580 - Andrew BoyleCourt Life in Early Modern Vienna and Versailles: Discourse versus Practice - Jeroen Duindam

Malcolm Vale is emeritus fellow in medieval history at St John's College, Oxford. He has published widely on the political and cultural history of the later Middle Ages. Mario Damen is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam.

presents a direct, refreshing and thought-provoking approach to the subject.

• Introduction: New Histories of the Court - Steven Gunn and Antheun JanseRitual, Ceremony and the `Civilising Process': The Role of the Court, c.1270-1400 - Malcolm ValeCorruption at Court? Crisis and the Theme of luxuria in England and France, c.1340-1422 - C. D. FletcherPatterns in Patronage: Distinction and Imitation in the Patronage of Painted Art by Burgundian Courtiers in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuriesand Early Sixteenth Centuries - Hanno WijsmanThe Nerve Centre of Political Networks? The Burgundian Court and the Integration of Holland and Zeeland into the Burgundian State, 1425-14771425-1477 - Mario DamenAppointment Strategies at the Court of Duke Philip the Good: New Applications of Old Mechanisms - Hanno BrandFor Mutual Benefit? Court and City in the Burgundian Low Countries - Peter StabelMemoirs and the Self-Consciousness of the Court: the Birth of a Genre - D A L MorganThe Court of Henry VII - Steven GunnThe Court, War and Noble Power in England, c.1475-1558 - David GrummittThe Burgundian-Habsburg Court as a Military Institution from Charles the Bold to Philip II - Hans CoolsCultural Life and the Exercise of Power at the Residences of Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel, 1512-1580 - Andrew BoyleCourt Life in Early Modern Vienna and Versailles: Discourse versus Practice - Jeroen Duindam