Project Status: Ongoing

Narrative Sources aims to offer an exhaustive and critical survey of all the narrative sources originating from the medieval Low Countries. The database is intended to inventory all texts which describe the past in a narrative way: annals, chronicles, letters, diaries, poems, saint’s lives, genealogies etc. Narrative Sources covers present day Belgium and the Netherlands as well as those areas which belonged historically to the Low Countries but are part now of France (French Flanders, French Hainault) or Germany (East Frisia, the northern Rhineland). The texts inventoried in Narrative Sources date from the sixth to the first half of the sixteenth century.

Resource details:

Resource Type: Catalog, Searchable Database

License: Institutional License, Must provide credit, Paid

Modern Language: Dutch, English, French

Medieval content details:

Dates: 500 - 1550

Subject: Literature, Manuscript Studies

Type/Genre of Medieval Primary Source Material: Chronicles, Annals, Genealogy, Heraldry, Hagiography, Letters, Petitions, Literature, Textual Evidence, Verse

Geopolitical Region: Belgium, Europe, Flanders, Holland, Low Countries, Netherlands

Original Language: Dutch, French, German