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The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (‘Croniken van der
Duytscher Oirden’) is a late fifteenth century Middle Dutch text
that strongly influenced early modern historiography in
north-eastern Europe. In German scholarship the text is commonly
known as the Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik (‘Younger Chronicle of
the Grand Masters’) and it offers a rare insight into the
self-image of members of the military orders at that time. The
chronicle describes the history of the Teutonic Order from its
supposed biblical origins in the Holy Land to the order’s
involvement in the Baltic crusades, to which a history of the local
Utrecht bailiwick is added. Interwoven are summaries of papal and
imperial privileges and indulgences, creating a mixture between the
genres of crusading literature, gesta, and cartulary chronicles.
This book offers a diplomatic edition and parallel English
translation of the recently rediscovered ‘author’s copy’
(Vienna, Deutschordenszentralarchiv, Hs. 392), written in direct
cooperation with the original author. It is the first complete
edition of the Utrecht Chronicle and includes several passages that
have never been edited. The English translation is the first
translation into a modern language, introducing new audiences who
are not proficient in Middle Dutch to the chronicle’s content.
The book targets students and scholars of the crusades and military
orders, as well as audiences interested in Baltic history, medieval
chronicles, and Middle Dutch literature more broadly. It
accompanies a recent study of the chronicle’s cultural context,
wide range of sources, and its authorship, published in the same
series in 2021.
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.
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.
In recent political and legal history, scholars seldom specify how
and why they use the concept of territory. In research on
state-formation processes and nation building, for instance, the
term mostly designates an enclosed geographical area ruled by a
central government. Inspired by ideas from political geographers,
this book explores the layered and constantly changing meanings of
territory in late medieval and early modern Europe before
cartography and state formation turned boundaries and territories
into more fixed (but still changeable) geographical entities. Its
central thesis is that assessing the notion of territory in a
pre-modern setting involves analysing territorial practices:
practices that relate people and power to space(s). The essays in
this book not only examine the construction and spatial structure
of pre-modern territories but also explore their perception and
representation through the use of a broad range of sources: from
administrative texts to maps, from stained-glass windows to
chronicles.
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