The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order

The Utrecht Chronicle of the Teutonic Order (‘ Croniken van der Duytscher Oirden’ ) is a late-fifteenth-century Middle Dutch text that strongly influenced early modern historiography in north-eastern Europe. In German scholarship the text is commonly known as the Jüngere Hochmeisterchronik (‘Younger Chronicle of the Grand Masters’) and it offers a rare insight into the self-image of members of the military orders at that time. The chronicle describes the history of the Teutonic Order from its su