Search results
Oct 10, 2021 · Is The Last Duel based on a book? Yes. The movie is based on Eric Jager's 2004 book The Last Duel: A True Story of Trial by Combat in Medieval France. Jager is an English professor at UCLA. The book also inspired a similarly titled 2008 drama-documentary that chronicled the Jean de Carrouges duel, which aired on BBC Four.
This essay takes issue with a still common tendency to read contemporary criticisms of powerful women as straightforward evidence of their “unpopularity,” using as a cast study Isabeau of Bavaria (1371-1435), who was generally imagined to have suffered the scorn of her contemporaries. In part one of the essay we argue that the two sources that scholars have relied upon prove not that ...
Aug 17, 2010 · The fascinating history of Isabeau of Bavaria is a tale of two queens. During her lifetime, Isabeau, the long-suffering wife of mad King Charles VI of France, was respected and revered. After her death, she was reviled as an incompetent regent, depraved adulteress, and betrayer of the throne.
1 Isabeau of Bavaria: Her Life 1 2 Isabeau of Bavaria: Her Afterlife 38 3 Isabeau Mediatrix: De ning the Mediator Queen 73 4 Isabeau s Contemporary Reputation 113 5 Isabeau of Bavaria and the Cour amoureuse 149 6 Reinterpreting the Enlèvement du dauphin 166 7 Revisiting the Treaty of Troyes 193 8 Wife, Mother, Friend 222
French Queen. Wife of King Charles VI. Born into a prominent Bavarian family related by marriage or blood to many titled royalty throughout Europe. Both her uncle and the uncle of her future husband agreed that Isabeau's marriage to the Charles VI, future King of France would strengthen several alliances and arranged...
After the planned invasion of England was spoiled by bad weather, King Charles VI decided to watch the duel and had the date changed to allow him to return to Paris and do so. Waiting for the king in Paris was his queen, Isabeau of Bavaria. Coincidentally, Isabeau gave birth to a dauphin at about the same time Marguerite gave birth to her son ...
Consumerism and expenditure at the Court of Isabeau of Bavaria, 1393–1422q Rachel C. Gibbons 73 Bayham Road, Knowle, Bristol B54 2DP, UK Abstract Unjustifiably, but often, dismissed as the driest of sources, medieval accounts can be a mine of historical and social information, and those of Isabeau of Bavaria, queen of Charles VI of France ...
