Pleasure and politics at the Court of France : the artistic patronage of Queen Marie de Brabant (1260-1321) /

For her commissioning and performance of a French vernacular version of the Arabic Tale of the Thousand and One Nights, recorded in one of the most vivid and sumptuous extant late thirteenth-century manuscripts, as well as for her numerous other commissions, Queen Marie de Brabant (1260-1321) was he...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hamilton, Tracy Chapman (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, [2019]
Series:	Studies in medieval and early Renaissance art history ; 64.
Subjects:	Marie de Brabant, > Queen, consort of Philip III, King of France, > 1254-1321. Art, Medieval > France. Art > Collectors and collecting > France > History > 13th century. Art, Medieval > History. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Absorbing Brabantine culture : politics and poetry in the youth of Marie of Brabant
Transforming the court : new roles in politics, art, and ceremony
Deluxe, didactic, secular, and spiritual : manuscript patronage in the court of Marie of Brabant
Carolingian current : promotion and patrimony in the patronage of Marie of Brabant
Conclusion : the next generation : royal women's patronage into the fourteenth century.