Bart Besamusca

A. Th Bouwman

An entertaining reworking of the most popular branch of the Old French tale of Reynard the Fox, the mid-thirteenth century Dutch epic Van den vos Reynaerde is one of the earliest long literary works in the Dutch vernacular. Sly Reynaert and a cast of other comical woodland characters find themselves again and again caught up in escapades that often provide a satirical commentary on human society. This charmingly volume is the first bilingual edition of the tale, featuring facing pages with an English translation by Thea Summerfield, making the undisputed masterpiece of medieval Dutch literature accessible to a wide international audience. Accompanying the critical text and parallel translation are an introduction, interpretative notes, an index of names, a complete glossary, and a short introduction to Middle Dutch.

Text and Facing Translation of the Middle Dutch Beast Epic Van Den Vos Reynaerde

Of Reynaert the Fox

Een beknopte beschrijving van de handschriftelijke en gedrukte overlevering.

een beknopte beschrijving van de handschriftelijke en gedrukte overlevering

Repertorium van de Middelnederlandse Arturepiek

de Middelnederlandse vertaling van de "Lancelot en prose" overgeleverd in de "Lancelotcompilatie" : pars 2 (vs. 5531-10740)

Lanceloet

Veerle Uyttersprot

Remco Sleiderink

Wetenschappelijke bijdragen over de Middelnederlandse literatuur.

avontuurlijk lezen in de epiek van de Lage Landen : studies voor Jozef D. Janssens

Maar er is meer

Elisabeth de Bruijn

Frank Willaert

The essays in this volume are concerned with early printed narrative texts in Western Europe. The aim of this book is to consider to what extent the shift from hand-written to printed books left its mark on narrative literature in a number of vernacular languages. Did the advent of printing bring about changes in the corpus of narrative texts when compared with the corpus extant in manuscript copies? Did narrative texts that already existed in manuscript form undergo significant modifications when they began to be printed? How did this crucial media development affect the nature of these narratives? Which strategies did early printers develop to make their texts commercially attractive? Which social classes were the target audiences for their editions? Around half of the articles focus on developments in the history of early printed narrative texts, others discuss publication strategies. This book provides an impetus for cross-linguistic research. It invites scholars from various disciplines to get involved in an international conversation about fifteenth- and sixteenth-century narrative literature.

Early Printed Narrative Literature in Western Europe

Jaap Tigelaar

studies over de middeleeuwse verhaaltraditie rond Karel de Grote

Karolus Rex

Frank Brandsma

studies over de Lancelotcompilatie

De Ongevalliche Lanceloet

Keuze uit het Haagse handschrift van de Lancelotcompilatie uit ca. 1320, met inleiding, woordverklaringen en commentaar.

een bloemlezing uit de Lancelotcompilatie

Jeesten van rouwen ende van feesten

Keith Busby

Essays demonstrating that Arthur belonged to the whole of Europe - not just England.

Arthurian Literature

Erik Kooper

New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to encompass European literatures other than French and English; still, however, an indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library. NOTES AND QUERIES

Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein

Ad Putter

Karen Pratt

Matthias Meyer

This collection of essays examines the various dynamic processes by which texts are preserved, transmitted, and modified in medieval multi-text codices, focusing on the meanings generated by new contexts and the possible reader experiences provoked by novel configurations and material presentation. Containing essays on text collections from many different European countries and in a wide range of medieval languages, this volume sheds new light on common trends and regional differences in the history of book production and reading practices.

Text Collections from a European Perspective

The Dynamics of the Medieval Manuscript

In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (west to east) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material..

The Arthurian Legend in Dutch and Flemish Literature

The Arthur of the Low Countries

Thea Summerfield

First full-length study in English of the Middle Dutch Lancelot-Compilation, of great significance for Arthurian studies.

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