See also:

• JACOB
• JACOB, JOHN (1812-1858)

JACOB See also:

• VAN

VAN See also:

• JACOB VAN MAERLANT (c. 1235-c. 1300)

MAERLANT (c. 1235-c. 1300)  , Flemish poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in the See also:

• FRANC

Franc de See also:

• BURGES, GEORGE (1786-1864)

Burges (tradition says at See also:

• DAMME

Damme) between 1230 and 1240 . He was sacristan of See also:

• MAERLANT, JACOB VAN (c. 1235-c. 1300)

Maerlant, in the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of Ost-Voorne, and afterwards clerk to the magistrates at Damme . His See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• WORKS

works are See also:

• TRANSLATIONS

translations of See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French romances . Maerlant's most serious See also:

• WORK

work in the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field of See also:

• ROMANCE

romance was his Ystorien See also:

• VAN

van Troyer (c . 1264), a poem of some See also:

• FORTY

forty thousand lines, translated and amplified from the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman de Troie of See also:

• BENOIT, PETER LEONARD LEOPOLD (1834—1901)

Benoit de Sainte-More . From this See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time Maerlant rejected romance as idle, and devoted himself to See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing scientific and See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical works for the See also:

• EDUCATION

education and, enlightenment of the Flemish See also:

• PEOPLE

people . His Heimelicheit der Heimelicheden (c . 1266) is a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of the Secreta secretorum, a See also:

• MANUAL

manual for the education of princes, ascribed throughout the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages to See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle . Van der Naturen Bloeme is a See also:

• FREE

free translation of De natura rerum, a natural See also:

• HISTORY

history in twenty books by a native of See also:

• BRABANT
• BRABANT, NORTH

Brabant, See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas de Cantimpre; and his Rijmbijbei is taken, with many omissions and additions, from the Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor . He supplemented this metrical See also:

• PARAPHRASE (Gr. irapa¢pavis, from rrapa4p4av, to relate something in different words, 'raga, beside, and ¢pai"eav, speak, tell)

paraphrase of Scripture history by See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Wrake van Jherusalem (1271) from See also:

• JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS (c. 37-C. 95?)

Josephus . Although Maerlant was an orthodox See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic, he is said to have been called to See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account by the priests for translating the See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

Bible into the vulgar See also:

• TONGUE (O. Eng. lunge)

tongue . In 1284 he began his magnum See also:

• OPUS ('O7rois)

opus, the Spiegel historiael, a history of the See also:

• WORLD

world, derived chiefly from the third See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• SPECULUM

Speculum majus of See also:

• VINCENT (or VINCENTIUS), ST
• VINCENT, GEORGE (1796-1831?)
• VINCENT, MARY ANN (1818-1887)

Vincent de See also:

• BEAUVAIS

Beauvais .

This work was completed by two other writers, Philipp Utenbroeke and Lodowijk van Velthem . Maerlant died in the closing years of the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, his last poem, Van den lande van oversee, dating from 1291 . The greater part of his work consists of translations, but he also produced poems which prove him to have had real See also:

• ORIGINAL

original poetic See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty . Among these are Die Clausule van der Bible, Der Kerken Clage, imitated from the Complaintes of See also:

• RUTEBEUF, or RUSTEBUEF (fl. 1245-1285)

Rutebeuf, and the three dialogues entitled Martijn, in which the fundamental questions of See also:

• THEOLOGY

theology and See also:

• ETHICS
• ETHICS, SHAFTESBURY, HOBBES

ethics were discussed . In spite of his orthodoxy, Maerlant was a keen satirist of the corruptions of the See also:

• CLERGY (M.E. clergie, O. Fr. clergie, from Low Lat. form clericia [Skean, by assimilation with O. Fr. clergie, Fr. clerge,from Low Lat. clericatus)
• CLERGY, BENEFIT OF

clergy . He was one of the most learned men of his See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age, and for two centuries was the most celebrated of Flemish poets . See monographs by J. van Beers (See also:

• GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

Ghent, 186o) ; C . A . Serrure (Ghent, 1861); K . Versnaeyen (Ghent, 1861); J. te Winkel (See also:

• LEIDEN

Leiden, 1877, 2nd ed., Ghent, 1892) ; and See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of Torec (Leiden, 1875) by J. te Winkel; of Naturen Bloeme, by Eelco Verwijs; of See also:

• ALEXANDERS (botanical name, Smyrnium Olusatrum, natural order Umbelliferae)

Alexanders Geesten (See also:

• GRONINGEN

Groningen, 1882), by J . See also:

• FRANCK
• FRANCK, CESAR (1822-1890)
• FRANCK, or FRANK [latinized FRANCUS], SEBASTIAN (c. 1499-c. 1543)

Franck; Merlijn (Leiden, 188o-1882), by J. van Bloten; Heimelicheit der Heimelicheden (See also:

• DORDRECHT (abbreviated Dordt, or Dort)

Dordrecht, 1838), by Clarisse; Der Naturen Bloeme (Groningen, 1878), by Verwijs; of Rijmbijbel (See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, 1858-1869), by See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David ; Spiegel historiael (Leiden 1857-1863), by Verwijs and de Vries; selections from the Ystorien van Troyen (1873), by J . See also:

• VET

Vet-See also:

• DAM

dam .