In this article, I discuss a piece of occassional poetry commemorating a treaty concluded between the city of Ghent and the episcopal court of Tournai in 1439. The short poem is found in a... Show moreIn this article, I discuss a piece of occassional poetry commemorating a treaty concluded between the city of Ghent and the episcopal court of Tournai in 1439. The short poem is found in a collection of official documents, now kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It was first copied in Dutch after which a second user (probably a native speaker of Dutch) added a French translation. Show less
