Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth – Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship

Introduction: The 'Long Luxembourg Century' (1308-1437): Courtly Networks, Cultural Politics, Dynastic Legacy Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisová, Václav Ž¿rek PART I: John the Blind and his Progeny in France 1. The 'Luxembourgness' of Things: Machaut C, Glazier 52, and Dynastic Presence in Early Fourteenth-century France Uri Smilansky 2. Guillaume de Machaut at the court of John of Luxembourg: Defining a Social Milieu Jana Fantysová Mat¿jková 3. The Vyšší Brod Cycle and its Anonymous Painter: French and Bohemian Court Circles in the 1340s Lenka Panušková PART II: Marvelous Objects and Culture at the Court of Charles IV 4. Charles of Luxembourg and his Reliquary Cross: the Significance of Precious Stones Ingrid Ciulisová 5. Charles IV and the Patronage of Multilingual Literature at his Court and Beyond Václav Ž¿rek 6. Miraculous Objects and Foundational Sins: Verbal and Material Reality in the Dalimil Chronicle, the Chronicle of P¿ibík Pulkava of Radenín, and Charles IV's Autobiography Matouš Jaluška PART III: Wenceslas and Sigismund: Art, Politics, and Diplomacy 7. The Making of the Wenceslas Bible, with Special Consideration of the Theological Concept of its Genesis Initial Maria Theisen 8. The Naked King: Representing Wenceslas in his Illuminated Bible Gia Toussaint 9. Dealing with the Luxembourg Court: Ellwangen Abbey and their Imperial Overlord Mark Whelan 10. Assessing the Luxembourgs: The Image of Wenceslas and Sigismund in the Correspondence of Italian Ambassadors Ond¿ej Schmidt PART IV: Studying the Luxembourgs: What has been Neglected 11. Heiresses, Regents, and Patrons: Female Rulers in the Age of the Luxembourgs Julia Burkhardt 12. Image-making, image-breaking, and the Luxembourg Monarchy Len Scales 13. The Absent Present: Luxembourg Courts, their Cultures, and Music Histor(iograph)y Karl Kügle Select Bibliography Index