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Jacob van Maerlant

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jacob van Maerlant , c.1235-c.1300, Flemish poet, earliest important figure of Dutch literature. He wrote lyric poems and chivalric verse romances after the French as well as long didactic poems, chief of which is Spiegel historiael, an adaptation of the Speculum of Vincent of Beauvais . Jacob van Maerlant is an early literary representative of the bourgeois spirit. Author not available, MAERLANT, JACOB VAN. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more
Dutch and Flemish literature
...expressed in the works of Jacob van Maerlant and in the Dutch versions...other humanists—Jan van der Noot , Dirck Coornhert...Corneliszoon Hooft and Joost van den Vondel , of the homely verse of Jacob Cats, of the comedies...Addison's imitator Justus van Effen, the ... Read more

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; ...Middle Dutch rendering in rhymed couplets of the Historia shows its debt to its source in its very title. The author, Jacob van Maerlant, is mainly interested in the historical material and omits most of the commentary that he found in his source. The... Read more
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; ...a list of cross-references and a list of manuscripts. The list includes the names of authors (such as Avicenna or Jacob van Maerlant) as well as general topics such as Gynaecologie and Reisverbaal 'travel book'. The second part of the book is a list... Read more

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