Gilles Li Muisis

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Gilles Li Muisis , also Gilles Le Muiset (* 1272 in Tournai , today Belgium , † October 15, 1352 ibid) was a French monk , chronicler and poet .

It is known under the following names or spellings: Aegidius Li Muisis , Aegidius Mucidus , Aegidius Le Muisit , Aegidius LeMuisit , Gilles LiMuisis , Gilles LeMiusit , Gilles Muisit , Gillion le Muisit , Gilles Le Muizet , Gilles de Muisis , Gilles le Morveux , Gilles de Saint-Martin de Tournai or Gillon le Muisi .

Contemporary representation of a group of flagellants from the Chronicles of Gilles Li Muisis around 1350, fol. 16v Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique , Brussels.

Life

Gilles Li Muisis entered the Benedictine monastery of St. Martin in Tournai in 1289 and was appointed prior there in 1327 . His religious name was Brother Aegidius (Latin Aegidius = French Gilles). On April 30, 1331 he was appointed abbot of the monastery. Gilles wrote the chronicles Chronicon majus and Chronicon minus in Latin , which deal with the history of the world from creation to the year 1349. Another writer continued the chronicles until Gilles' death in 1352. They are considered to be important evidence of the history of northern France and Flanders for the first half of the 14th century and were published by Joseph-Jean De Smet (1794–1877) in his Corpus chronicorum Flandriae .

He is well known for his exaggerated description of the Cologne Jewish pogroms on Bartholomew's Night in 1349 , according to which 25,000 Jews were supposed to have been slaughtered that night. His portrayal coined the term "Battle of the Jews" for the events of that night.

From the pen of Gilles there are also some poems in tournaier dialect, which were published by Baron Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove in the 19th century.

Works

  • Chronica Aegidii li Muisis , ed. by Joseph-Jean De Smet in: Corpus chronicorum Flandriae , Volume 2. Brussels 1841, Text Archive - Internet Archive .
  • Chronique et annales de Gilles le Muisit. Abbé de Saint-Martin de Tournai (1272-1362) , ed. by Henri Lemaître, Paris 1905, Text Archive - Internet Archive .
  • Poésies de Gilles li Muisis. Publ. Pour la 1. fois d'après le ms. de Lord Ashburnham , ed. by Kervyn de Lettenhove, 2 volumes, Louvain 1882; Digital copies: Volumes 1  - Internet Archive and 2  - Internet Archive

literature

  • František Graus : Plague - Geissler - Murder of Jews. The 14th Century as a Time of Crisis , 2nd revised edition, (publications of the Max Planck Institute for History, Volume 86), Göttingen 1988, ISBN 3-525-35622-6 .
  • Wilhelm Schmidt: Investigation of the rhymes in the poems of Abbot Gilles Li Muisis , Bonn, Univ., Diss., 1903, archive.org

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Joseph-Jean De Smet : Chronica Aegidii li Muisis. In: Corpus chronicorum Flandriae . Volume 2. Brussels 1841.
  2. ^ František Graus : Pest-Geissler-Judenmorde. The 14th century as a time of crisis . Göttingen 1988, p. 206
  3. Joseph Kervyn de Lettenhove (ed.): Poésies de Gilles li Muisis. Louvain n.d.