A solid, thorough...scholarly work, firmly rooted in the manuscripts and in Chastellain's chosen genre... The last work, at least for a while, on Chastelain. SPECULUM Small shows himself as fine a master of codicology as of prosopography and the operation of patronage networks... dense, rewarding, and often fascinating reading. The importance of the book derives from the subtlety, novelty, ... Read moreand sustained vigour of its quest to site accurately Chastelain and his chronicle in their contemporary cultural perspective, and from the light thus thrown on the issue of the evolution of a `Burgundian state'... Emphatically, an important and original study. MEDIUM AEVUM [M H Keen] This important book significantly revises our understanding of George Chastelain's career and achievement... A work of careful, exact research that must be read by all students of late medieval state formation and historical writing in the Burgundian domains and France. AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW Unquestionably warrants inclusion in all serious libraries. EUROPEAN STUDIES JOURNAL Show Less