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G033
Recollection des merveilles
Century: 15
Chronicles
French
INCIPIT
EXPLICIT
Sex: M- Bio: Born in Lede (?) from the mariage of Jan Chastelain, a Ghent shipmaster, and Marie van Massemen, a lady of the lower Flemish nobility (because of financial misfortune his parents were forced to move between 1410 and 1415 from the Ghent city life to a short life in the country in the area of Alost); 1430-1432: studied in Louvain; 1433: shortly in military service for Philip the Good (overdue payment in 1434); 1439 (and presumably also the years before that): active in the Ghent trade life, but without much success; 1441: at the court of the French king Charles VII; from 1446 on finally in the service of the Burgundian dukes Philip the Good and Charles the Bold: in 1455 official historiographer, in 1457 ducal counsellor, in 1473 knight; (?ca.1414/+20th March 1475) (Small).-Status author (order, function):
EDITING
Location: / - Date:ca.1462 (Tyl-Labory and Lefèvre); 1st version finished in 1462, 2nd version in 1466 (Urwin) - Commission: /
SIZE
336 verzen (42 strofen van 8 verzen)
CONTEXT
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ABSTRACT
Mixture of events of major and minor concern of which the author was impressed, covering 1429-1462. Continued by Jean Molinet till 1495.
SOURCES
klassieke auteurs (Macrobius, Sallustius, Vergilius) (eigen Chronique)
INFLUENCE
MANUSCRIPTS
TRANSLATIONS
EDITIONS
DE LETTENHOVE (J.M.B.C.), Oeuvres de George Chastellain, 7, Collection des anciens auteurs belges/ ARB, Commission pour la publication des oeuvres des grands écrivains (Brussel, 1865; reprint: Genève, 1971) 187-202
LITERATURE
MINET -MAHY (V.), L’automne des images: Pragmatique de la langue figurée chez George Chastelain, François Villon et Maurice Scève (Paris, 2009)
SMALL (G.), ‘Chastelain, George’, in: G. Dunphy, ed. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Leiden/Boston, 2010) , 268-269
SMALL (G.), George Chastelain and the Shaping of Valois Burgundy: political and historical culture at court in the fifteenth century (London, 1997)
THIRY (C.), 'Le vieux renard et le jeune loup. L'évolution interne de la Recollection des merveilles advenues', Le Moyen Age, 90 (1984)
TYL-LABORY (G.), LEFÈVRE (S.), 'Georges Chastellain', in: Dictionnaire des lettres françaises. Le Moyen Age (Paris, 1992) 510-512
URWIN (K.), Georges Chastellain, la vie, les oeuvres (Paris, 1937; reprint: Genève, 1975)
VAN HEMELRYCK (T.), 'Les figures exemplaires au secours du héros bourguignon: exemples de chroniqueurs', Publications du Centre européen d'études bourguignonnes (XIVe-XVIe s.), 41 (2001) 39-51
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Jan Van Schaftingen
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Update:
2013-06-10 15:03:03