Abstract
An official report judged that 'the bishop of Tournai held a speech in a very remarkable way and to the highest praise of the deceased lord'. Evidently, Guillaume Fillastre's funeral sermon was an important part of the late duke's obsequies, and the mourning audience highly esteemed the preacher's words. In the last years, however, some speeches have attracted the attention of a few historians who are concerned with intellectual or literary history. Arjo V andeljagt and Wim Blockmans, for example, examined speeches made by Charles the Bold and Guillaume Hugonet, thereby clearly demonstrating the enormous impact of humanistic political philosophy on Burgundian political ideas in the 1460s and 1470s. In this chapter, the author approaches the speeches pronounced at the Burgundian court and by Burgundian diplomats in the third quarter of the fifteenth century in a different manner. Keywords: Burgundian court; Guillaume Fillastre; humanistic political philosophy
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