Narrative Sources from the Medieval Low Countries is an annotated collection of narrative source texts of all kinds which originate in the historical area of the medieval Low Countries. This includes historiographical sources as well as hagiographical texts. The entries contain a great deal of information on the genesis of the text (author, period of origin, etc.), on transmission (manuscripts, co-transmission, etc.) but also on modern accessibility (editions, translations, etc.). All of this information can be searched for explicitly. In general, the search options are manifold: in addition to a temporal limitation you can also search directly for manuscripts or certain types of sources. This is where hagiography comes into play. Hagiography can be selected via the „Type“ search function. A total of 786 entries on hagiographical texts from the Low Countries between the 6th and 16th centuries can be found here.
Author: Jeroen Deploige (Department of History – Ghent University)