Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde - Volume 138, Issue 2, 2022

Abstract In this contribution a fourteenth-century fragment (Leiden, UB, BPL 2387 D) of Jacob van Maerlant’s Historie van Troyen (ca. 1264) is edited for the first time. The fragment is written by the Brabantine Ferguut-scribe and consists of two parchment strips that belonged to the same folio. The sixty – mostly remnants of – verses are situated in a passage that Maerlant borrowed from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Until now t Read More

Abstract The novelistic cycle is an important literary form in its epic ambition to capture the totality of a historical period, a family, or an individual experiential world. In Dutch literary history, it constitutes a strong tradition, with examples such as S. Vestdijk’s Anton Wachter and Van der Heijden’s Tandeloze Tijd. This article develops a framework for the study of the novelistic cycle and illustrates its richness in Dutch literar Read More