A knight for the ages : Jacques de Lalaing and the art of chivalry / Elizabeth Morrison, editor ; with contributions by Wim Blockmans, Rosalind Brown-Grant, Tobias Capwell, Alexandra Kaczenski, Anne-Marie Legaré, Margaret Scott, Zrinka Stahuljak, Hanno Wijsman. - xi, 180 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 30 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Elizabeth Morrison, with Timeline by Alexandra Kaczenski -- Plot summary for the Book of the deeds of Jacques de Lalaing / Zrinka Stahuljak -- Plates with translations / Zrinka Stahuljak -- Jacques de Lalaing: the vitality of the chivalric ideal in the Burgundian Netherlands / Wim Blockmans -- Jacques de Lalaing and chivalric biography / Rosalind Brown-Grant -- The long middle ages of Jacques de Lalaing: medieval genres and the writing of history / Zrinka Stahuljak -- Creating the ideal knight through illumination: the artists of the Getty Lalaing / Elizabeth Morrison -- The visual tradition of the Book of the deeds of Jacques de Lalaing / Hanno Wijsman -- Clad in crimson and gold: dress in the Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing / Margaret Scott -- Armor, weapons, and combat in Getty Ms. 114 / Tobias Capwell -- A family text: the Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing / Anne-Marie Legare -- Description of the manuscript -- Genealogy of the Lalaing family.

"An in-depth introduction to the sixteenth-century illuminated manuscript Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing, with eight multidisciplinary essays by medievalist scholars, a timeline, a genealogy, a map of Lalaing's travels in Europe as a knight errant, and more than eighty illustrations"--Provided by publisher.

9781606065754

2018002481


Jacques de Lalaing, 1423-1453 --Romances--Illustrations.


J. Paul Getty Museum.--Manuscript. 114 --Illustrations.
J. Paul Getty Museum


Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing--Illustrations.


Chivalry--Early works to 1800.
Chivalry in art--Early works to 1800.
Tournaments, Medieval, in art.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish--16th century.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Renaissance--Flanders.
Illumination of books and manuscripts--California--Los Angeles.


Burgundy (France)--History--House of Valois, 1363-1477.
Netherlands--History--House of Burgundy, 1384-1477.

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