Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order The Military Religious Orders Series
Auteur : Stapel Rombert
Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century is a multidisciplinary study of late medieval authorship and the military orders, framed as a whodunit that uncovers the anonymous author of the ?Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order?.
Through a close analysis of the Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order and its manuscripts, and by exploiting a wide range of scholarly techniques, from traditional philology and extensive codicological examinations to modern digital humanities techniques, the book argues that the recently resurfaced Vienna manuscript is actually an author?s copy, written in direct cooperation with the original author. This important assertion leads to a reinterpretation of the text, its sources and composition, authorship, and the context in which it was conceived. It allows us to associate the text with an upsurge of historiographical activities by various military orders across the continent, seemingly in response to the publication and aggressive dissemination of the account of the Siege of Rhodes by Guillaume Caoursin in 1480. Furthermore, the text can be positioned at the crossroads between different cultural spheres, ranging from the Baltic region to the Low Countries, spanning French, German, Dutch, and Latin linguistic traditions.
This book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval history, as well as those interested in cultural history and the military religious orders.
1. Introduction 2. Manuscripts 3. Sources and Composition 4. Sources in Context 5. Authorship 6. Conclusion
Rombert Stapel is a researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work encompasses the historiography of the military orders, socioeconomic history of the medieval and early-modern Low Countries, and digital humanities. Currently he is leading a project that studies the population geography of the Netherlands and Belgium from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.
Date de parution : 08-2022
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 12-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Mots-clés :
Teutonic Order; Medieval Europe; Fifteenth Century; Military Orders; Crusade; Historiography; Teutonic's order; Middle Dutch; Medieval Europe's; Middle Dutch Translation; Medieval history; Land Commanders; Spiegel Historiael; Honorius III; Fasciculus Temporum; Northern Low Countries; Grand Masters; Jacob Van Maerlant; Holy Roman Empire; Speculum Historiale; Voragine’s Legenda Aurea; Van Drongelen; Lodewijk Van Velthem; Southern Low Countries; Author’s DNA; Editorial Amendments; Legenda Aurea; Van De Zande; Pope Innocent Iii; Quire Signatures; Teutonic House; Land Charters