Rewriting chronicles in an urban environment: the middle Dutch 'Excellent chronicle of Flanders' tradition

The fifteenth-century Low Countries witnessed the emergence of prose chronicles written in the vernacular. The most important medieval Flemish chronicle tradition in the vernacular was the 'Excellent Chronicle of Flanders'. This tradition probably started shortly after 1423, when the so-called Flandria Generosa C was translated into Middle Dutch. A number of late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century manuscripts survive, in addition to a printed version of 1531. Like many other medieval chronicles, the Excellente Cronike tradition is an 'open text', in which authorship interacts with the text's rel... Mehr ...