Table of Contents

Introduction
The Material Foundation of Court Life
1: Court and Household
2: Organization and Structures
3: Consumption and Expenditure
4: The Travelling Court
Culture
5: Court Life and Court Culture
6: Art at Court: Investment in Culture?
Conclusion
Appendices
Maps
Bibliography

Reviews

`Review from previous edition The Princely Court is an important book...Sophisticated, vividly illustrated and rigorously researched...It is abrim with original ideas and perceptions which look to have significant implications for students of other periods too.'
Maurice Keen -English Historical Review
`Useful to anyone who seeks to understand the intricate network of affinities and exchanges within which princely courts operate. Vale knows this territory well, perhaps better than anyone...And he is very generous to his readers, both in his provision of raw data and its analysis...An essential contribution to the study of court life.'
The Medieval Review
`Remarkable new book, which will be the point of departure for studies of the late medieval court for a long time to come...Refreshing views on the subject of definitions of culture.'
Nigel Saul, Times Literary Supplement
`It is his vivid and illuminating reconstructions of court life in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries that will be of inestimable use both to medievalists and to all those with a serious interest in court culture.'
American Historical Review