Knights of the Golden Fleece

...Supported by the economic power of the northern territories, the duchy had the largest financial scale in Europe at the time, except for the Valois dynasty, and its court culture is said to have elevated the medieval aristocratic lifestyle to a style of its own. The pomp of the knights of the Golden Fleece, the popularity of the "Grand Rhetorician" literary style represented by Chatelain, and the rise of the 15th century Flemish painting school that began with Van Eyck - all of these aspects of culture are related to Philip's reign. However, the "principality" never achieved a centralized system appropriate to a nation, and criticism of Philip continued to smolder in the northern territories, and in the face of the Valois dynasty's insidious policies, the duchy was already showing signs of collapse in his later years. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to the Order of the Golden Fleece is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…北方領国諸邦の経済力に支えられて，バロア王家を除けば当時ヨーロッパ随一の財政規模を構え，その宮廷文化は，中世の貴族的生活規範をひとつのスタイルにまで高めたものと評される。金羊毛騎士団が展開した騎士団の盛儀，シャトランに代表される〈大修辞家〉文芸の流行，ファン･アイクに始まった15世紀フランドル画派の隆盛，これら文化の諸相は，すべてフィリップの代にかかわるものである。しかし〈公国〉は，一個の国家にふさわしい集権体制をついにとりえず，北方領国にはフィリップに対する批判がくすぶりつづけ，バロア王家の陰湿な政策の前に，フィリップの晩年，公国はすでに自壊の兆しをみせていた。…

※「金羊毛騎士団」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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