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Reference : Philippe de Mézières et son Epistre au roi Richart


	Document type :	Scientific journals : Article
	Discipline(s) :	Arts & humanities : Philosophy & ethics Arts & humanities : Art & art history Arts & humanities : Literature Arts & humanities : History
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Title :	Philippe de Mézières et son Epistre au roi Richart
Language :	French
Author, co-author :	Marchandisse, Alain [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences historiques > Histoire du Moyen Age tardif et de la Renaissance >]
Publication date :	2010
Journal title :	Moyen Age (Le)
Publisher :	De Boeck & Larcier
Volume :	116
Special issue title :	Le prince en son « miroir ». Littérature et politique sous les premiers Valois
Pages :	605-623
Audience :	International
ISSN :	0027-2841
City :	Leuven
Country :	Belgique
Keywords :	[en] Philippe de Mézières ; Charles VI ; Richard II ; mirror for princes ; Order of the Passion of Jesus Christ ; crusade
Abstract :	[en] In mid-May 1395, Philippe de Mézières writes a Letter to king Richard II of England, an urgent call, which does not belong to the epistolary but to the allegorical and the mirror for princes genre. This letter, revealing a clear similarity of thought between the author and the king of France, Charles VI, to whose education the former contributed, is preserved as a unique manuscript, the Royal 20 B VI, in the British Library. This manuscript turns out to be the one offered to the English monarch and, being addressed to the latter, ended up in the hands of a prince, who was particularly able to appreciate its meaning and all its wit. Although Mézières advocates a reconciliation between the kings of France and England, to be sealed with a marriage between Isabelle de Valois, the former’s oldest daughter and the latter, which was the safest way to achieve his ultimate aim of a reconciliation within the Church and the re-conquest of the Holy Land, what he truly hoped for was the founding of the Order of the Passion of Jesus Christ.
Research units :	Transitions. Centre d’études du Moyen Âge tardif & de la première Modernité
Target :	Researchers ; Professionals
Permalink :	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/115582
DOI :	10.3917/rma.1634.0605
Other URL :	http://www.cairn.info/publications-de-Marchandisse-Alain--18475.htm

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