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Jacob van Maerlant
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ca 1230 - post 1291. Low Countries. Author of Middle Dutch chivalric romances, strophic poems, a saint's life and didactic and historical works. Jacob was born near Bruges (Flanders, present-day Belgium), where he presumably attended the school connected to the chapter of St. Donaas' church. For about ten years (1260-70) he lived on the island of Voorne (county of Holland), where he was sexton of the small church in Maerlant (the village from which he derived his name), in the service of the lords of Voorne. In Maerlant he wrote his first works:
Alexanders Geesten (Deeds of Alexander, ca…
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2021-04-15
