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Temple de Boccace

Century: 15

Poems

French

INCIPIT

EXPLICIT

Georges Chastelain, Georges Chastellain

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:1463-1464 (Tyl-Labory en Lefèvre); begun before 1459 and finished after the visit of Margaret of Anjou to Hesdin in August 1463 (Urwin); finished in 1465 (Small) - Commission: /

SIZE

CONTEXT

ABSTRACT

Consolation poem adressed to Margareth of Anjou, wife of Henry VI, king of England, dismissed in the course of the Rose War. The poem pays homage to and is a continuation of Boccaccio's De casibus illustrium virorum.

SOURCES

INFLUENCE

MANUSCRIPTS

TRANSLATIONS

EDITIONS

BLIGGENSTORFER (S.), Le Temple de Boccace: édition commentée, Romanica helvetica, 104 (Bern, 1988) 104
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) 75-143

LITERATURE

BALTHAU (E.), SMALL (G.), 'Littérature ‘de cour’ et public ‘bourgeois’ à la fin du Moyen Âge: un manuscrit inconnu du Temple de Bocace de George Chastelain', in: Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent, 56 (2002) 65-92
DEVAUX (J.), 'Jean Molinet, indiciaire bourguignon', in: Bibliothèque du XVe siècle, 55 (Paris, 1996) 248-249, 251, 483
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)
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)

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Contributor:
Janick Appelmans
Marit Gypen

Update:
2013-06-10 15:08:12