The Court as a Stage: England and the Low Countries in the Later Middle Ages

European and English courtly culture and history reappraised through the prism of the court as theatre.

In the past half-century, court history has lost the air of frivolity that once relegated it to the margins of serious historical study and has rightfully taken a central part in the study of European states and societies in the age of personal monarchy. Yet it has been approached from so many different angles and appropriated to so many different models that it can be hard to put all our ...