Burgundians

The Arnolifini Wedding Portrait (1434, oil on wood, 82.2 cm x 60 cm, National Gallery, London) by Jan Van Eyck is one of the most extraordinary and mysterious paintings in art history. The complexity and rich detail makes it perplexing to art historians who have never been able to establish the true meaning behind the portrait. The most notable opinion is that of Erwin Panofsky, who argues that the Arnolfini was a marriage ceremony and was witnessed by the painter, shown with his reflection in…

renounced the prudent war tactics. They organized a series of attack and got satisfied result. Les Tourelles was free again after 209 days of siege, also with victories on Jargeau, Meung-sur-Loire and Beaugency. However, she was held captive by Burgundian in a small conflict. They sent Joan to the English. After an unfair adjudgement, she was convicted and burned in Rouen in 1431. This raged the army and citizen of France, and there’s high morale between them. At the same time Philip III (Duke…

L’homme armé Surviving today in music manuscripts of the late fifteenth century and beyond are more than thirty-five polyphonic Masses built on the popular tune of L’homme armé. Wright & Simms (2010) reported that composers borrowed this melody more often for religious purposes than any other piece of music. Pierce (2011) asserted that the composer of the original monophonic melody L’homme armé, while unknown, created the piece around the 10th century near Burgundy, east-central France and later…

Joan of Arc I am the most notable woman in French history. Would you believe I was only sixteen when I fought for France? As a young child, I never really went to church or prayed that much. But when I was visited by 3 saints, that all changed. I am Joan of Arc, I grew up a typical girl, but at the age of thirteen, three saints appeared to me; their appearance changed France forever because I fought for my people’s freedom and became the most notable woman in French history. I was born in…

From 1337 until 1453, the French and British were fighting over who was the rightful heir to the French throne in the Hundred Years’ War. The warring between the two countries was almost stopped when King Henry V had several consecutive victories, leading to his ability to forced Charles VI to name Henry V as the successor for the throne. This was to be the end of conflict until Henry V died in 1422 a few months before Charles VI did. The two deaths led to a disagreement of who was to inherit…

It is interesting to note that, included in the set of Suffrages as the very first prayer is an illustration devoted to St. Anne in St. Anne Instructing the Virgin (Fol. 13). It is no accident that the first suffrage in this prayer book is dedicated to the saint with the same name as the patron; certainly, this primary position was deliberately chosen, indicating the particular devotion to this saint that Anne de Bretagne had. The inclusion of St. Anne is not only significant because of the name…

rebuild the great Basilica of Saint Denis, a burial church of the French monarchs. Making France strong was his life’s calling and even though he was restricted in power Suger tirelessly aimed his efforts at restoring the basilica. By mixing the Burgundian pointed arch and the Norman ribbed vault, Suger and his architects established a new style in church architecture resulting in a basilica considered to be the first of the Gothic style. In the rebuilding of the Basilica of Saint Denis,…

The Frankish armies was very diverse, its army had franks, Saxons, Alaman, Allans, Burgundian and gallon-roman (Bachrach, Bernard S. "Procopius, Agathias and the Frankish Military." Speculum 45, no. 3 (1970): 435-41). The Frankish were warriors, they acted like and dressed like the fierce warriors they were. Clovis was a go getter and he’d always go after what he wanted, Siagruis the king of Roman had a seat in the city of Soissons, so Clovis challenged him for it. (Gregory of Tours, History of…

A certain part of society has been unchanging throughout history. The discriminative view of women has been criticized, yet still exists today. Women have been considered more of an inconvenience than anything else. Yet, through the prejudice, there are still few women in history who make a difference. One women in particular took up a man's job and fulfilled her duty better than other man could have. Joan of Arc was born in 1412 to a poor family in France. Her father was a tenant farmer who…

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to lead a whole army throughout an important battle? Or how about what it’s like to become famous over many impacting events that people thought would never happen, actually become a reality? Well, this and many other tragic occurrences happened to Joan of Arc. More than what you could ever imagine. While Joan of Arc was wandering in her father’s garden, she was playing around with the flowers. Moments later she then heard some bells ringing. There she…