The Chronicle Attributed to âOlivier van Diksmuideâ: a Misunderstood Town Chronicle of Ypres from Late Medieval Flanders

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The Chronicle Attributed to âOlivier van Diksmuideâ: a Misunderstood Town Chronicle of Ypres from Late Medieval Flanders

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401205511_016

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The starting point of this research is the chronicle ascribed to Oliver of Dixmude, which deals with the period 1377-1443 and which has hitherto always been characterized as a regional âFlemishâ chronicle. However, the study of this often cited chronicle offers us new (after Ghent) evidence that during the fifteenth century the genre of the town chronicle was also rather successful in the Southern Low Countries, contrary to what has always been supposed. There are several reasons why the chronicle by Oliver of Dixmude has never before been given the epithet of urban chronicle. One of them is that the edition by Lambin from 1835 â the only edition of the manuscript, which was lost in 1914 â does not faithfully present the original text. Apart from omitting the annual lists of the members of the town government, Lambin also left out several of the âYpresâ fragments. It is only thanks to a previously unstudied copy of the text found in the Courtrai Town Library, that these âlostâ passages could be retrieved. Besides, this chronicle should be studied in the context of a much broader fifteenth-century local tradition of recording important urban events in the form of a narrative account. Indeed, the hardly known chronicle ascribed to Pieter van de Letuwe, which discusses the immediately following period 1443-1480, is very similar in structure. Even if the authorship of the persons mentioned above can be maintained, it should be kept in mind that there existed a kind of collective authorship, the members of which belonged to the leading urban elite.

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The Medieval Chronicle V

Series:Â The Medieval Chronicle, Volume: 5

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401205511

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2008

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