The Arthur of the Low Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Arthur of the Low Countries write by Bart Besamusca. This book was released on 2021-01-15. The Arthur of the Low Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (west to east) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material..
King Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries
King Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries write by Geert H. M. Claassens. This book was released on 2000. King Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Arthurian myth is one of the most fundamental and abiding ones of Western culture. The legend of King Arthur and his knights was no less popular in the medieval Low Countries than it was anywhere else in medieval Europe. It gave rise to a varied corpus of Middle Dutch Arthurian verse romances, most of which are contained in a single manuscript, the so-called Lancelot Compilation of MS The Hague, KB, 129 A10. This manuscript of the early fourteenth century contains a cycle of verse narratives that rivals in its scope and thematic concerns the better known Old French Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian tales and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte D'Arthur. This volume contains new critical work on these and other Middle Dutch Arthurian romances, twelve studies by eleven established scholars in the field of Arthurian literature. In addition to this new scholarship, the volume is provided with an extensive introduction to the Arthurian literature of the medieval Low Countries, as well as summaries of all the extant Middle Dutch Arthurian texts. As such it should prove of interest to Arthurian specialists and enthusiasts alike, many of whom will discover a new body of Arthurian tales, at once both familiar and new, in a heretofore relatively neglected area of Arthurian studies.
The Dawn of Dutch
The Dawn of Dutch - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dawn of Dutch write by Michiel de Vaan. This book was released on 2017-12-14. The Dawn of Dutch available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Low Countries are famous for their radically changing landscape over the last 1,000 years. Like the landscape, the linguistic situation has also undergone major changes. In Holland, an early form of Frisian was spoken until, very roughly, 1100, and in parts of North Holland it disappeared even later. The hunt for traces of Frisian or Ingvaeonic in the dialects of the western Low Countries has been going on for around 150 years, but a synthesis of the available evidence has never appeared. The main aim of this book is to fill that gap. It follows the lead of many recent studies on the nature and effects of language contact situations in the past. The topic is approached from two different angles: Dutch dialectology, in all its geographic and diachronic variation, and comparative Germanic linguistics. In the end, the minute details and the bigger picture merge into one possible account of the early and high medieval processes that determined the make-up of western Dutch.
King Arthur in the Low Countries
King Arthur in the Low Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook King Arthur in the Low Countries write by . This book was released on 1987. King Arthur in the Low Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries
Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries write by Catharina Lis. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the half millennium of their existence, guilds in the Low Countries played a highly significant role in shaping the societies of which they were a part. One key aspect that has been identified in recent historical research to explain the survival of the guilds for such a long time is the guilds' continued adaptability to changing circumstances. This idea of flexibility is the point of departure for the essays in this volume, which sheds new light on the corporate system and identifies its various features and regional variances. The contributors explore the interrelations between economic organisations and political power in late medieval and early modern towns, and address issues of gender, religion and social welfare in the context of the guilds. This cohesive and focussed volume will provide a stimulus for renewed interest and further research in this area. It will appeal to scholars and students with an interest in early modern economic, social and cultural history in particular, but will also be valuable to those researching into political, religious and gender history.
