“And he hides a picture from silver, holding thereby the king in his power!“ Splendor maiestatis and the spectre of the spell-bound king at the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries

Abstract

the article analyses the look of French sources, especially of writers Honoré Bovet and Pierre Salmon at the madness of the French king Charles VI, at the problem of his possible dethronement and at the immunity of the royal majesty.