The Royal Image

  PREFACE
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  ABBREVIATIONS

 expand sectionINTRODUCTION—  VERNACULAR HISTORY, LATIN HISTORIOGRAPHY, ROYAL PATRONAGE, AND THE GRANDES CHRONIQUES

 collapse sectionPART I—  THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED COPIES OF THE GRANDES CHRONIQUES
 expand sectionChapter One—  Philip III's Grandes Chroniques
 expand sectionChapter Two—  Manuscripts Produced during the Reigns of the Last Direct Capetians

 collapse sectionPART II—  DYNASTIC CHANGE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF HISTORY IN THE MID-FOURTEENTH CENTURY
 collapse sectionChapter Three—  Textual and Pictorial Innovation in John the Good's Grandes Chroniques
 Politics and the Problem of Succession
 Saint Louis:  The Model Roi Très Crétien
 The Prerogatives of Holy Kingship
 Chapter Four—  The Courtly Response in Manuscripts by the Master of the Roman de Fauvel

 collapse sectionPART III—  THE GRANDES CHRONIQUES OF KING CHARLES V
 expand sectionChapter Five—  The First Stage of Execution (before 1375)
 expand sectionChapter Six—  The Second Stage of Execution (c. 1375—77)
 expand sectionChapter Seven—  The Third Stage of Execution (after 1379)

 collapse sectionPART IV—  MANUSCRIPTS PRODUCED DURING THE REIGN OF CHARLES VI
 Chapter Eight—  The Legacy of Charles V
 Chapter Nine—  Popular Manuscripts and the Religion Royale
 expand sectionChapter Ten—  Advice to the Nobility in Manuscripts Produced in the Style of the Master of the Cité des Dames
  EPILOGUE—  THE GRANDES CHRONIQUES IN THE LATE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

 expand sectionNotes
  APPENDIX I—  ARTISTS IN GRANDES CHRONIQUES PRODUCED C. 1274–1422
 expand sectionAPPENDIX II—  SURVIVING MANUSCRIPTS OF THE GRANDES CHRONIQUES AND THEIR PROVENANCE
  CATALOGUE OF MANUSCRIPTS
 expand sectionSELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
 expand sectionINDEX

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