1st Edition

Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order

By Rombert Stapel Copyright 2021
462 Pages
by Routledge

462 Pages
by Routledge

462 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Manuscripts

3. Sources and Composition

4. Sources in Context

5. Authorship

6. Conclusion

Biography

Rombert Stapel is a researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His work encompasses the historiography of the military orders, socioeconomic history of the medieval and early-modern Low Countries, and digital humanities. Currently he is leading a project that studies the population geography of the Netherlands and Belgium from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century.