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Title: Science and literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884
Subjects: Middle Ages Renaissance Science, Medieval Literature, Medieval
Publisher: London : Bickers and Son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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rles VII. and of the doings of JoandArc has not the fire which it might have possessed. During each reign the ofiicial chronicler of France prepared the materialsfor a history of the sovereign, but this history was not necessarily written,much less published. Thus Louis XL appears to have systematically hinderedhis chronicler from completing the events of his reign, and that whichappeared towards the end of the fifteenth century with the inappropriatetitle of Chronique Scandaleuse du Roj Louis XL, and under the name ofJean de Troyes, was merely the outline of the work compiled by PierreDesrey, of Troyes, chronicler of France under Louis XL, and the only reasonfor entitling this Chronicle scandalous was that it was published without theroyal assent. After Pierre Desrey, Andre de la Vigne wrote, partly in proseand partly in verse, the Vergier dHonneur, with reference to the boldexpedition of Charles VIII. for the conquest of Naples. The wars of the CHRONICLES, HISTORIES, MEMOIR: ;s 4.81
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Fig. 370.—Fabled Origin cf the Burgundy Cross.—£tienne, a legendary King of Burgundy,makes a Pilgrimage to St. Victor of Marseilles, to whom he has carried the Cross ofSt. Andrew, out of gratitude to St. Mary Magdalene, who had raised him and his Motherfrom the Dead. This Cross afterwards figured in the Shield of the House of Burgundy.—Miniature from the Chroniques do Bourgogne.—Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century.—Inthe Library of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. 4«2 CHRONICLES, HISTORIES, MEMOIRS. French in Italy during the reign of Louis XII. were recorded by JeandAuton, who, in his character of chronicler of France, compiled a yerycomplete Chronicle, the stj4e of which, however, was pedantic and involved.This deplorable style was brought into fashion by the historians of the courtof Burgundy, and especially by Canon Jean Molinet, the historiographer ofMargaret of Austria, who governed the Low Countries (Fig. 365). Francois I.,Henri II., and their successors, down to He

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