The historian is concerned only secondarily with the major events fof the time—the wars and treaties, the tragedy of Nicopolis, the con stant quarrel with France, and the steady enlargement of the Burgundian State, He deals with them in 0 far as they provide the back-fe round for and explain the Court Tite, This lie is of the highest interest. It was a time of moral confusion, 'The old chivalric ideas were decaying-The Renaisvance had not yet lized Europe. The deifcation of the Lady was giving place to a bitter cynicism, the mocking satire lof Jean de Moung. True, there was Tip service to Guillaume' de Lorris, but the voracious sensualism of the latter half of the Romaunt of the hook of hours, two ideals were living side by side, and here they are powerful-set out.
Brages in its Glory in the recreating of the Burn court that Professor Car glory, Bruges the me-wealthy, thronged with merchants; Bruges n centre of cultured life is 'a glorious back-cloth for the processions of knights in robes of scarlet lined with ermine, gold-em-Droidered mantles, and long-banded hoods, the uniform of the Onder of the Golden Fleece. So, too, is Ghent, another proud city, where in 1470 Claude de Vaudrey, chamberlain of Charles the Bold, held the Pas de In Dame Sauvage and joustced against all noble comers.
Another great tourney was that} held in Bruges at the marriage of Charles the Bold with Margaret.
York, where Anthony,—the. Bastard of Burgundy, defended the Arbre WOr. And afterwards there were the feasts where courses of 40 different dishes were set before the guests on gold plate, and th niost' ingenious engineers and artists ministered to the amusenent of the lords and ladies. Nowhere in Europe was there such grace, such beauty, such wealth jand luxury as in the Burgundian courts held in the Flemish " towns The chivalry of Europe was gathered there.
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