ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how different chroniclers and court writers mediated the outrage that finally led the Orleanist and Burgundian factions to armed conflict, especially from the formation of the League of Gien to the 1419 assassination of Jean of Burgundy. It also examines the Cour amoureuse as one Burgundian theatre for defining relationships and enacting the emotional injuries that motivated its leaders to take up arms. The chapter suggests that despite the chroniclers' apparent consensus that the 'people' were unreasoning, beast-like creatures, easily manipulated by cynical feud leaders into revolt, their anger was considered and complex. The Armagnacs were stronger in the Beauce, writes the Bourgeois, but the people, heavily burdened by the armies, and did not know whom to obey when the militias entered the region. The Burgundians had suffered under Armagnac rule, and, in seeking their revenge, they aimed their fury at the persons and institutions that had caused them the most misery.
