'Uut veel boecken vergadert': Compilation-strategy and universality in the late medieval Kattendijke-kroniek (c. 1491).
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2019-10-04
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This thesis focusses on the Kattendijke-kroniek, a chronicle written in the Middle Dutch language around 1491 in the Dutch county of Holland by a still unknown lay author. Many scholars writing on medieval occidental historiography argue that from the Late Middle Ages onward, the chroniclers increasingly focussed on their own region in their world-chronicles while simultaneously applying a more secular approach to history. Contrary to this vision, Nico Lettinck, writing in the late 1980s, observed that despite this tendency of ‘regionalization’, the traditional, medieval Christian-providential worldview was still prevailing in many world-chronicles written in the Netherlands during the later Middle Ages. This discussion fits in the wider scholarly debate on the (supposed) changes in the conception of history during the late medieval / early Renaissance period. More specifically, then, this thesis will investigate whether Lettinck’s postulate applies for the Kattendijke-kroniek, in which the geographical scope indeed narrows as the narrative reaches the author’s own time. The main question will be if this regionalization is accompanied by an increasing secular approach toward history, or if the author still wrote from the traditional Christian-providential perspective.
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