Medieval Dutch Literature in its European Context (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 21) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521402220 ISBN 13: 9780521402224

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book offers new insights into the rich and varied Dutch literature of the Middle Ages. Sixteen essays written by top scholars consider this literature in the context of the social, historical and cultural developments of the period in which it took shape. The collection includes studies of the most representative authors, genres and works of the time. A comparative chronological survey provides an overview of the main cultural, historical and literary events in Europe and the Netherlands between 1150 and 1500, and the bibliography lists English translations of medieval Dutch texts discussed.

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Book Description:

This 1994 book offers insights into the rich and varied Dutch literature of the Middle Ages. Sixteen essays written by top scholars consider this literature in the context of the social, historical and cultural developments of the period in which it took shape.

Review:

"the volume contains much that is fascinating, plus some true treasures of discovery....Erik Kooper's volume, which contains a useful bibliography of translations and an excellent four-column chronology, instructively complements the English-based collaboration edited by Caroline Barron and Nigel Saul....It certainly deepens the fascination of this shifting, densely populated bloc of European territories, native ground to anxieties and fantasies that will flower through Bosch and Brueghel and so inaugurate, some might say, the ego's era." David Wallace, Studies in the Age of Chaucer

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521402220
• ISBN 13: 9780521402224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 344
• Editor: Kooper Erik