Book Launch - Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century: Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship

Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisova, Václav Žůrek (eds)

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You are invited to celebrate the publication of:


Karl Kügle, Ingrid Ciulisova, Václav Žůrek (eds)
Luxembourg Court Cultures in the Long Fourteenth Century:
Performing Empire, Celebrating Kingship

(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2024)


Speakers: Zoë Opačić (Birkbeck), Mark Whelan (Queen Mary), Václav Žůrek (CAS Prague)

If you wish to attend, please RSVP to karl.kuegle@music.ox.ac.uk.

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