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Article: 'Een boec dat men te Latine heet Aurea Legenda': Beitrage zur niederlandischen Ubersetzung der 'Legenda aurea'.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2006
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Een boec dat men te Latine heet Aurea Legenda': Beitrage zur niederlandischen Ubersetzung der 'Legenda aurea'. Ed. by Amand Berteloot, Hans van Dijk, and Jasmin Hlatky. (Niederlande-Studien, 31) Munster, New York, and Munich: Waxmann. 2003. 286 pp. 39.90 [euro]. ISBN 3-8309-1245-5.
Jacobus de Voragine is one of those giants on whose shoulders modern scholars stand like dwarfs. Very diligent dwarfs though, with a great capacity for analysing the giant's every move and utterance, as this volume shows. Moreover, entirely in keeping with the tradition of the Legenda aurea, which is a truly European work, the present collection of essays is the result of fruitful ...