1st Edition

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order A History of the Crusades in the Holy Land, Prussia and Livonia (Edition and Translation)

Edited By Rombert Stapel Copyright 2024
580 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

580 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

580 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction to the edition and translation

Introduction

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order

Content

Sources

Dissemination

Editorial history

Editorial principles

Translators’ notes

Typography used in edition and translation

References to corresponding texts

Editions

Corresponding texts

Edition and Translation

Appendix

Sequential lists of rulers

Grand masters

Land masters of Prussia

Land masters of Livonia

(Land) commanders of Utrecht and temporary caretakers

‘Kings’ of Jerusalem

Bishops of Üxküll/Livonia, later Riga

Bibliography

Biography

Rombert Stapel is senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In 2021 he published a study titled Medieval Authorship and Cultural Exchange in the Late Fifteenth Century: The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order with Routledge. His work encompasses the historiography of the military orders, socioeconomic history and population geography of the medieval and early-modern Low Countries, and digital humanities – with a special focus on geohumanities and the application of historical GIS.

Christel Saridjo is self-trained as a translator of Middle Dutch. She is married to Rombert Stapel.