Queeste - Volume 28, Issue 2, 2021

Abstract Both in Die Riddere metter Mouwen (‘The Knight with the Sleeve’), a Flemish Arthurian romance written in the second part of the thirteenth century, and in Lodewijk van Velthem’s Fifth Part of the Spiegel Historiael (‘Mirror of History’), an early fourteenth-century continuation of Jacob van Maerlant’s voluminous world history (1284-1289), a frightening forest appears which is called Woud(e) sonder Genade (‘Forest Read More

Abstract In the second half of the fifteenth century the canonesses regular of the Brussels convent of Jericho produced dozens of manuscripts, both for their own community and, for payment, for wealthy lay people and religious institutions outside the convent walls. The accounts of the prioresses of Jericho, which contain a wealth of detailed information on manuscript production in the monastery, reveal that the lion’s sh Read More

Abstract Literary historians have often noted the ‘conventional’ nature of the 14th-century Middle Dutch verse romance or ridderroman. While the corpus has long been depreciated as derivative, a mixture of older romance motifs amplified into sometimes grotesque proportions: ‘epic in decay’, this view has slowly been reconsidered. The complicated intertextuality of 14th-century ridderromans is now more understood a Read More