The Medieval Chronicle 16

Erik Kooper received his MA and Ph.D. from Utrecht University, where he taught Old and Middle English. He published editions of a number of Middle English works, and articles on medieval chronicles such as the Latin Prose Brut and Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle. Sjoerd Levelt is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. His most recent books are The Middle Dutch Brut: An Edition and Translation (2021) and North Sea Crossings: The Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Relations 1066–1688 (with Ad Putter).

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

List of Contributors



1 Nation–Power–Subjectivity: The Making of National Subjects in Bohemia and Brabant at the Beginning of the Fourteenth Century

 Éloïse Adde



2 A Medieval Search for the Historical Jesus?

The Vita Christi in Ranulf Higden’s Latin Compilation and John Trevisa’s English Translation of the Polychronicon

 Jane Beal



3 Fragments d’une chronique hébraïque provençale de la seconde moitié du treizième siècle

 Abraham David



4 Violence and Monasticism in Two Aquitanian Chronicles

 John France



5 Entre convergences et dissonances, le maître de Paris et d’Acre et l’Estoire d’Outremer

 Kasser Helou



6 The Structural Character of East Slavic Historiography in Comparative Perspective

 Jitka Komendová



7 ‘The Malicious Barking of Critics’: A Literary-Historical Approach to the topos of Anticipated Criticism

 Justin Lake



8 The Creation of the Legend: The Pius Prince Dimitrij of Uglich

 Victoria Legkikh



9 Mousket and ‘Mesire Ernous’

The Portrayal of Arnold IV of Oudenaarde (*c.1175–† 1242) in Philip Mousket’s Chronique rimée (c.1240) as a Means for a Better Understanding of the Chronicler’s Position and Motives

 Robin Moens



10 Female Indoctrination through the Image: The Case of Crónica Geral de Espanha de 1344 (Ms. A 1, Academia das Ciências de Lisboa)

 María Pandiello



11 La ‘Matière de Troie’ dans les plus anciennes chroniques d’Europe Centrale

 Adrien Quéret-Podesta



12 Martin of Opava and Dominican Understandings of Imperial Power in the Later Middle Ages

 Elisabeth Rolston



13 Review Article: The Bergh Chronicle Manuscript: History of a Codex, a Codex Full of Histories

 Jelmar Hugen and Anna de Bruyn



Book Reviews



Alison Lewin, Ed. and Trans., Bindino da Travale, Chronicle (1315–1416)

 Paula Clarke



Anne Curry and Rémy Ambühl, Eds., A Soldiers’ Chronicle of the Hundred Years War: College of Arms Manuscript M9

 Edward Donald Kennedy



John Scattergood with Niamh Pattwell & Emma Williams, Trinity College Library Dublin: A Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Middle English and Some Old English

 John Thompson