Sometimes quite a lot. Christine de Pizan wrote three different
balades about the
1402 combat between seven French and seven English. She wrote
balades praising Charles d'Albret and
others undertaking Boucicaut's
Emprise de l'Escu vert à la Dame Blanche and the
seneschal of Hainault's deeds of arms "in many distant lands". And her
Book of the Duke of True Lovers contains a detailed description of fictional
jousts that closely matches other accounts of the actual jousts of the period.
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