Citation

Dumolyn J. History 2007; 92(305): 3-20.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1468-229X.2007.00383.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

On 22 May 1437 a violent disturbance of the social order occurred in Bruges. Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, only narrowly escaped with his life, while Jean de Villiers, lord of L’Isle-Adam, was killed. Contradictory and competing accounts of these events have survived which illustrate princely and urban discourses on the Bruges rebellion of 1436–8. Careful analysis of these sources reveals that the social and political struggles between the centralizing dukes of Burgundy and their powerful and autonomous Flemish cities reflected a discursive struggle for the representation of political events.