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- Title
INTRODUCTION.
- Abstract
The naming of Creton in the I explicit i : I composee par i [blank] I Creton i , seems to be taken from the beginning of the epistle to King Richard: I je, Creton i ( I infra i , p. 301, l. 12). Creton found no reason to believe Richard alive: in his epistle to Philip the Bold, written April to October 1402 ( I supra i , p. 20), he implores Burgundy to avenge the death of King Richard (p. 319, ll. 1-12). It is clear from the pejorative terms in which he wrote of the English, with the exception of the King and the earl of Salisbury, that Creton greatly disliked, perhaps even hated the English (ll. 2243-2244; p. 188, ll. 10-12; p. 201, ll. 8-11; p. 212, ll. 4-6; p. 111, ll. 5-7; ll. 2341, 2348-2358, 2374-2376, 2457-2459, 2650, 2929-2930, 3653-3655, 3667-3668). Jehan Creton was a Frenchman and a writer, of whose work only the I Prinse et mort i [1] and the related I ballades i and epistles survive; see Figure I for his portrait. The suggestion that their placing reflects a moral - a country divided against itself ends up with an empty throne - is too complex.[27] Creton clearly had a hand in organizing the miniatures; the portrayal of the King in Figures VIII, XI-XV is clearly life-like, Richard's two-pointed beard is well attested.[28] Creton chose to illustrate either incidents he himself had witnessed, or at least incidents that happened while he was with Richard.[29] It may thus be assumed that the images of Montaigu and Creton himself would also be life-like, and of particular value since faithful portraits of historical figures from as early as around 1400 are not numerous.
- Subjects
COPYING; BETRAYAL; LIBRARY catalogs; PATRONAGE; PERSONAL names; SILENT reading; FRENCH language; FRENCH painting
- Publication
Camden Fifth Series, 2023, Vol 65, p1
- ISSN
0960-1163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S096011632200029X