Jan van Naaldwijk's chronicles of Holland
Subtitle: continuity and transformation in the historical tradition of Holland during the early sixteenth century
By: Sjoerd Levelt
Publisher: Verloren
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hilversum
Language: eng; dut
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9789087042219
Subjects: Historiography
Description: The little-known author Jan van Naaldwijk, whose two early sixteenth-century Dutch chronicles of Holland are preserved in autograph manuscripts in the British Library, wrote at a moment reputed to be the turning point between medieval and Renaissance modes of historical writing. While he primarily relied on the medieval historical tradition of Holland, he expanded it in ways that allow us to appreciate the broader impact of innovations occurring at the same time in more 'professional' scholarly circles. This is the first in-depth study of these chronicles and their relation to their sources, placed in the wider context of history writing running from the mid-fourteenth century into the eighteenth, providing new insights into the continuities and transitions that characterized the historical tradition of Holland from the late middle ages well into the early modern period.
Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (PhD)-- University of London, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-271) and index.

Text in English with appendices in Dutch.