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importance the dukes attached to the magnificence of
their household. A splendid court could, better than
anything else, convince rivals of the high rank the dukes
claimed to occupy among the princes of Europe. “After
the deeds and exploits of war, which are claims to glory,”
says Chastellain, “the household is the first thing that
strikes the eye, and which it is, therefore, most necessary
to conduct and arrange well.” It was boasted that the
Burgundian court was the richest and best regulated of
all. Charles the Bold, especially, had the passion of
magnificence.
It was the new middle-class wealth and skill that
translated the chivalric dream into the visual panorama. Surely
we have here an early phase of “know-how” and practical
applied knowledge such as in centuries to come was to create