Rewriting chronicles in an urban environment: the middle Dutch 'Excellent chronicle of Flanders' tradition
Jan Dumolyn|J.B. Oosterman|Tjamke Snijders|Stijn Villerius
The fifteenth-century Low Countries witnessed the emergence of prose chronicles written in vernacular. most important medieval Flemish chronicle tradition vernacular was 'Excellent Chronicle Flanders'. This probably started shortly after 1423, when so-called Flandria Generosa C translated into Middle Dutch. A number late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century manuscripts survive, addition to a printed version 1531. Like many other chronicles, Excellente Cronike is an 'open text', which authorship interacts with text's relationships texts, practices speech, aurality discourse, readers listeners within certain social cultural environments. Selected case studies linking different specific milieus urban environments Ghent Bruges illustrate this interaction.
Lias-sources and Documents Relating To The Early Modern History of Ideas