Van den Vos Reynaerde counts as the masterpiece of our medieval literature, and perhaps of the entire Dutch literature. What is the secret of this classic, which at every time also reads as a modern novel, and that has meant so much for so many? With the erudition of the connoisseur and the enthusiasm of the enthusiast, Frits van Oostrom decided to devote a book to the Reynaert , with the aim of showing what makes this text so unique to all those generations of readers and researchers who - sometimes on the obsessive AF - with the Reynaert lived. And in the end it is also about Van Oostrom's own lifelong interaction with our most famous Middle Ages: a fox. With a new edition to all sources of the Middle Dutch text, by Ingrid Biesheuvel and Frits van Oostrom. [Publisher]

Language: Dutch