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12 BERNARDINO OF SIENA: q. G. G. Coulton, Inquisition and Liberty, London, 1938, 45. WALSINGHAM ON UNBELIEF: q. Jusserand, 224.
13 CLAMANGES AND GERSON ON IRREVERENCE: q. M. Mollat, Vie, 65.
14 BRETHREN OF THE COMMON LIFE: Hyma, passim; Southern, 331–52.
15 GROOTE AND THOMAS A KEMPIS: ibid.
16 Imitation of Christ ASCRIBED TO GERSON: Coville, 416–17. GERSON’S SERMON: Valois, II, 395.
17 CLEMENT PREPARES FOR ROME: Coville, 302.
18 THOMAS OF GLOUCESTER: KL, XIV, 314–15, 384; XV, 165, 240.
19 GUY DE BLOIS: KL, XIV, 370; Barante, II, 36–38.
20 COUCY’S ROLE: Jarry, Orléans, 85; Lacaille, thèse, 138; KL, XVI, 71.
21 PRECAUTIONS TAKEN AT AMIENS: KL, XIV.
22 COUCY AND PHILIPPA: ibid., 378. BURGUNDY’S CLOTHES: Barante, II, 39.
Chapter 24—Danse Macabre
1 ff. THE CRAON-CLISSON AFFAIR: Chron. C6, II, 3 ff., and KL, XIV, 316–20, are the basic narrative sources. They are combined in a lively account by Barante, II, 46–55. Modern accounts in Coville, 305; CMH, 372; Lefranc, 340–56. Admiral de Vienne’s conduct: Lefranc, 356. On Craon personally, see DBF and Bio. Index in KL.
2 CRAON’S ASSASSINATION OF A KNIGHT OF LAON: KL, notes, XV, 362. 495 SECRET CORRESPONDENCE OF THE UNCLES WITH DUKE OF BRITTANY: Sismondi, Histoire des Français, Paris, 1828, II, 597.
3 ff. CAMPAIGN AGAINST BRITTANY and THE KING’S MADNESS AT LE MANS: Chron.
4C6, II, 19–25; KL, XV, 40–49; Barante, II, 59–81; Moranvillé, 89, 124–26, 149.
5 GUILLAUME DE HARSIGNY: Edouard Fleury, Antiquités et monuments du département de l’Aisne, Paris, 1882, 242–43. Also Mâle.
6 COUCY IN RIVIERE’S ARREST: KL, XV, 63–64, and notes, 365; Lefranc, 367. RECEIVES MERCIER’S PROPERTY: KL, XV, 67; Moranvillé, 158, 161, 163.
7 BURGUNDY AND CLISSON: Lefranc, 365–67. COUCY REFUSES CONSTABLESHIP: KL, XV, 97.
8 COUCY ESCORTS KING TO LIESSE: Lacaille, thèse, 142; DBF, IX, 873. HARSIGNY’S EFFIGY: now in the museum at Laon. The inscription reads “Deo et Nature reddo Simplicia. Acta compositi sint Deo Grata.” Allowing for ambiguities of language, the translation could be: “I give back to God and nature my [bodily] elements. May the deeds of the whole [man] be pleasing to God.”
9 LADIES HAD TO TURN SIDEWAYS TO PASS THROUGH DOORWAYS: described by Juvenal des Ursins, q. Collas, 75.
10 COUCY IN SAVOY: Duchesne, 269–70.
11 CUSTOMS AT SECOND MARRIAGES: M. Mollat, Vie, 57.
12 ff. DANCE OF THE SAVAGES: Chron. C6, II, 65–71; KL, XV, 77, 85–87, 89–90, 92; Chron. Valois, 328; Barante, II, 95–99. Huguet de Guisay’s character is from Chron. C6.
13 LOUIS’ CÉLESTIN CHAPEL: Chron. C6, II, 75; Jorga, 506.
14 ff. Danse Macabre: Carco; Chaney; Huizinga, Waning, 139–41. On origin of the phrase, in addition to the above, OCFL. CHURCH OF THE INNOCENTS MURALS: Chaney, from verses and woodcuts in Guyot Marchant’s Danse Macabre, c. 1485. EFFIGY OF CARDINAL DE LA GRANGE: now in Musée Calvet, Avignon; illustrated in Joseph Girard, Avignon: ses monuments, Marseille, 1930. A thorough if pedestrian listing of such effigies with illustrations appears in Kathleen Cohen, Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, Berkeley, 1974.
15 CEMETERY OF THE INNOCENTS: Mâle, 360; Huizinga, Waning, 144; Carco, 29.
16 SEVEN SORROWS OF THE VIRGIN: Mâle, 125. BEAUTIFUL MADONNAS: One of the most characteristic and charming is the statue of the Madonna of the Bird at the church of Notre Dame du Mathuret in Riom in Auvergne. POPULATION REDUCED BY 50 PERCENT: Russell, “Effects of Pestilence,” 470; Carpentier, AESC, 1082–83.
17 ff. PESSIMISM: Gower, from Confessio Amantis. DATINI: q. Origo, 116. GERSON: q. Thorndike, History, IV, 115. MONK OF CLUNY: q. Coulton, Life, I, 2. MÉZIÈRES: q. Coopland ed., I, 255. ROGER BACON: q. Coulton, Life, II, 57. DESCHAMPS: q. KL, la. 440–41. CHRISTINE DE PISAN: q. ibid.; SAFE-CONDUCTS: from her Book of Fayttes, xix. UNIVERSITY SELLING DEGREES: Coville, 395.
18 “VICES OF THE DIFFERENT ORDERS”: q. T. Wright, Political Songs, I, lxxxiv–vi.
19 NOTARY OF CAHORS: Denifle, 827.
20 GOWER ON WAR: q. Barnie, 123, 131.