The Multilingual Literary Dynamics of Medieval Flanders: The Production and Reception of Manuscripts Ghent University
Bart Besamusca, Lisa Demets, Jenneka Janzen
The Multilingual Literary Dynamics of Medieval Flanders project set up a database of 2539 extant manuscripts (version January 2024) produced in the county of Flanders or owned by a Flemish resident, roughly dating from 1200 to 1500. This dataset includes metadata of extant manuscripts holding ‘literary’ texts such as romances, chronicles, Books of Hours, but also law treatises and theological works. This project focused on the production and reception of manuscripts containing Dutch, French and Latin texts in medieval Flanders. The extant manuscripts originating from medieval Flanders ...