The Excellent Chronicle of Flanders is one of the most important regional chronicle traditions, firmly embedded in the political context of the Flemish towns in the late Middle Ages. This article discusses the reception of the Excellent Chronicle in the early sixteenth century, and its commercial rather than political position within Bruges’s professional book market before it was printed by...

German Renaissance humanists uncovered two vital aspects inherent in the idea of sixteenth-century Austria: it was both part of the humanist homeland, Germania, and identifiable with the ancient Roman province Pannonia Superior. Set against the background of the fall of Rome and the V.lkerwanderung, the connection between and history of Pannonia Superior and Austria allowed the humanists to...