Weg van de staat. Blijde Intredes in de laatmiddeleeuwse Nederlanden op het snijvlak van sociale, culturele en politieke geschiedenis¹

This article analyses the Joyous Entry of Maximilian of Austria into Antwerp on 13 January 1478 and provides an edition of the text probably written by a rhetorician from Antwerp, in which this event was described in detail. Using a range of narrative and administrative sources we provide the entry with a political and social context and situate it within the negotiating process between a new prince and his subjects on the one hand, and between the different interest groups both on a local and regional level, on the other hand. The manifold tableaux vivants staged in Antwerp, as well as the ac... Mehr ...