A Flower for Many Seasons: the Riche Fleur-de-lys de Bourgogne in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
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Abstract
The article, based on the first comprehensive study of a corpus of published documents, reconstructs the history of the liturgical vessel known as Fleur-de-lys from 1420 to 1607 and discusses how this item developed and accumulated different forms of value over time. The term ‘value’ encompasses here all the forms of appreciation that can condition how an object is treated, and not only the ones directly pertaining to its price or legal status
