Georges Chastellain

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Georges Chastellain (* 1405 in Ghent , † March 20, 1475 in Neuss ) was a Flemish poet and chronicler of Central French at the Burgundian court of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold .

life and work

Chastellain studied in Leuven . In 1457 he became the adviser of Duke Philip the Good and rose to the position of recognized master of poetry and historiography at the Burgundian court (successor: Jean Molinet ). His contemporary Olivier de la Marche called him "la perle et l'étoile de tous les historiographes". In 1473 he was knighted by Charles the Bold during the feast of the Order of the Golden Fleece (but not accepted as a knight of the order). Chastellain, who had traveled a lot as a soldier, was nicknamed "The Adventurer" (L'Adventureux). He fell during the siege of Neuss . His extensive chronic and poetic work was edited by Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove and, above all, has been intensively researched since around 1970.

Works

  • Oeuvres de Georges Chastellain , ed. by Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove, 8 vols., Brussels, Heussner, 1863–1866.
    • 1. Chronique. 1419-1422.
    • 2. Chronique. 1430-1431, 1452-1453.
    • 3. Chronique. 1454-1458.
    • 4. Chronique. 1461-1464.
    • 5. Chronique. 1464, 1466-1468, 1470.
    • 6-8. Various oeuvres.

Modern editions

  • Le temple de Bocace , ed. by Susanna Bliggenstorfer, Bern, Francke, 1988.
  • Chronique. Les fragments du livre IV révélés par l '"Additional manuscript" 54156 de la "British Library" [1456–1457 and 1458–1461], ed. by Jean-Claude Delclos, Geneva, Droz, 1991.
  • Le miroir de mort , critical ed. by Tania Van Hemelryck, Louvain-la-Neuve 1995
  • (with Jean Montferrant and Jean Robertet) Les Douze Dames de Rhétorique , ed. by David Cowling, Geneva, Droz, 2002.
  • Les exposicions sur verité times a prize. Le "Dit de verité" , ed. by Jean-Claude Delclos, Paris, Champion, 2005.
  • Le livre de paix , ed. by Tania Van Hemelryck, Paris, Champion, 2006.

literature

  • Gabriel Pérouse (1874–1928), Georges Chastellain. Etude sur l'histoire politique et littéraire du XVe siècle , Paris, Champion, 1910.
  • Kenneth Urwin, Georges Chastelain. La vie. Les œuvres , Paris, P. André, 1937; Geneva, Slatkine, 1975.
  • Kurt Heilemann, The vocabulary of Georges Chastellain based on his chronicle , Borna, Noske; Paris, Droz, 1937 (Diss. Leipzig).
  • Karl Hemmer, Georges Chastellain (1405-75). Poet and advisor to his prince. Teacher of his time , dissertation Münster 1937.
  • Marga Krabusch, Georges Chastellain as historian and observer of political life in his time. Studies on the Franco-Burgundian historiography of the late Middle Ages , Diss. Heidelberg 1950 (typescript).
  • Jean-Claude Delclos, Le témoignage de Georges Chastellain. Historiographe de Philippe le Bon et de Charles le Téméraire , Geneva, Droz, 1980 (Thèse, Sorbonne, 1977)
  • Graeme Small, George Chastelain and the shaping of Valois Burgundy. Political and historical culture at court in the fifteenth century , London, Royal historical society, 1997.
  • Estelle Doudet, Poétique de George Chastelain, 1415-1475. Un cristal mucié en un coffre , Paris, Champion, 2005 (Thèse, Sorbonne, 2002).
  • Virginie Minet-Mahy, L'automne des images. Pragmatique de la langue figurée chez George Chastelain, François Villon et Maurice Scève , Paris, Champion, 2009 (introduction with David Cowling, shows Chastellain's closeness to Jean Gerson ).

Manual information

  • Laffont-Bompiani. Le nouveau dictionnaire des auteurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays , Paris 1994, pp. 645-646 (Bouquins series).
  • Armand Strubel, “Chastellain, Georges”, in: Dictionnaire des écrivains de langue française , ed. by Jean-Pierre Beaumarchais, Daniel Couty and Alain Rey, Paris, Larousse, 2001, p. 331.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonja Dünnebeil (Ed.): The protocol books of the Order of the Golden Fleece , Vol. 3: The festival in 1473 in Valenciennes under Duke Charles the Bold (Instrumenta 19) Ostfildern 2009 ISBN 978-3-7995-7919-3 , p 42f.
personal data
SURNAME Chastellain, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chastelain, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Flemish poet and chronicler of Central French at the Burgundian court of Philip the Good and Charles the Bold
DATE OF BIRTH 1405
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent
DATE OF DEATH March 20, 1475
Place of death Neuss