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The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation

The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation

Levelt, Sjoerd

Paperback

Series: Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary CriticismFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1802073612
ISBN13: 9781802073614
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Mar 1 2024
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The earliest chronicle of England in Dutch is found in a series of chronicles published in 1480 by Jan Veldener, who had been William Caxton's business partner in the Low Countries. The chronicle was written independently and made to fit in with the larger series. While being the first known standalone chronicle of England in Dutch, it shows a remarkable sophistication and adeptness in negotiating English and Dutch sources, as well as Dutch and English interests, and presents a determinedly Lancastrian view of English history to its Dutch audience. As such, the Middle Dutch Brut is a fifteenth-century product of what for the middle of the seventeenth-century has been identified as 'the Anglo-Dutch public sphere', and an indication that the reciprocal channels of discourse between Dutch and English speakers of the early modern period found their origins in the Middle Ages.

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