The changing face of medieval Dutch narrative literature in the early period of print (1477-c.1540).

This research project will, for the first time, study the early printed Dutch narratives as a whole corpus. These texts are of outmost importance for the history of Dutch literature, because they are the link between medieval narratives copied in manuscripts andearly modern narratives, printed after c. 1540. While the first of the 35 texts involved, the Historie of Alexander, was published as early as 1477, the dates of the latest ones coincide with the end of what Dutch scholars call the period of the post-incunabula (1501- c. 1540). These Dutch narrative texts will be studied in their international context, because printed narratives are a cross-European phenomenon.

Keywords:PRINTING HISTORY, EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE, COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Disciplines:History, Language studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Other languages and literary studies

Project type:Collaboration project