Nederlandse Letterkunde - Volume 16, Issue 1, 2011

In 1860, Blommaert edited a manuscript fragment, found in the municipal archives of Bourbourg. The fragment offers a unique text witness of a Middle Dutch Carolingian epic, nowadays known as the Fierabras. Just before the fragment breaks off, the text discusses the shield (escutcheon) of the epical heroes Roland and his father Milon, bearing a red lion rampant on a field of gold. In 1937, Knuttel recognized in this heraldic d Read More

This article shows how Nazi doctor Sigmund Rascher (1909-1945) was the model for Doctor Jankowsky, the protagonist of Louis Ferron’s De keisnijder van Fichtenwald [The stone-cutter of Fichtenwald] (1976). This has interesting implications for the way in which the novel can be read. If you look at the last part of Ferron’s ‘Teutonic trilogy’ as a roman à clé, it is possible to discover a core meaning in this work – something Read More

Based on a critical review of six recently published scholarly editions, this article assesses the present state of scholarly editing, or more precisely of popular print editions. A recent trend seems to be a shift towards editions-as-narratives that focus on ‘telling the story behind the text’ by means of contextualisation. Despite the undeniable importance of generally accepted guidelines, the cases that are being discussed show that the Read More

Hadewijch, Liederen. Ed. Veerle Fraeters & Frank Willaert, Groningen: Historische uitgeverij, 2010 (tweede druk). Met een reconstructie van de melodieën door Louis Peter Grijp. Met vier cd’s. – 455 p. ISBN 978-90-6554-478-0.; Hadewijch, Liefdesliederen. Vert. Jan Kuijper, met een nawoord door Rosita Steenbek, Amsterdam: Athenaeum – Polak & Van Gennep, 2010 – 155 p. ISBN 978-90-253-6730-5.; Klaartje Groot, Geliefd e Read More