medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jim wrote:
>In Philip the Bold's funeral cortege in 1404, 100 burgesses and 100 poor
men of Dijon were arrayed in black, but that is not surprising since
Philip the Bold was noted as the 15th-century Man in Black,
I'm afraid you're confusing him with his grandson Philip the Good, who vowed
to wear black till his death, after the murder of his father John the
Fearless in 1419. There is iconographical evidence that he let it slip a
little nearer the end of his life, but he did create a fashion. After him it
became chique to wear black, especially by men. The Habsburg court, which
imitated the Burgundian one slavishly, took care of the spreading of this
idea.
Henk
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