Feast of the Pheasant
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The Feast of the Pheasant (Banquet du Voeu) was a banquet given by Philip the Good of Burgundy in 1454 in Lille. Its purpose was to promote a crusade which never took place. However the feast was written up in a contemporary account of how Religion, represented mounted on an elephant led by a giant saracen came to the banquet hall to request aid from the Knights of the Golden Fleece. We are also told which music by Gilles Binchois was performed and the details of 24 musicians playing inside an enormous pie and a trick with a horse riding backwards.
[edit] Discography
- Le Banquet du Voeu, 1454, Music at the Court of Burgundy, Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard, Virgin Classics 91441,Virgin Veritas 59043.
[edit] Bibliography
- Agathe Lafortune-Martel, (1984), Fete noble en Bourgogne au XVe siecle: Le Banquet du Faisan (1454): Aspects politiques, sociaux et culturels Cahiers d'etudes medievales 8 Paris: Vrin.
