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dc.contributor.editorRemmelink, Willem
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-18T14:11:38Z
dc.date.available2022-02-18T14:11:38Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/52935
dc.description.abstractThe revised prose version of the Babad Tanah Jawi was originally prepared by C.F. Winter Sr. (1799-1859), with the twofold aim of providing Javanese-language teaching material and of setting a standard for formal Javanese prose writing. At that time, Javanese was almost exclusively written in verse, which was not a medium suitable for the modern world that was dawning on Java. Although Winter achieved his aims in other ways and publications, the present text was mostly forgotten, or was just passed over as another copy of the Meinsma text (Pigeaud, Literature of Java). This was unfortunate, because it deprived linguists of one of the first attempts to create a standard Javanese prose language, and historians of a readable text that presented a Javanese view of Javanese history from the beginning until 1742. To belatedly set the record straight and to honour Winter’s contributions to the development of Javanese, I decided to publish this text in Javanese script and provide an English translation for the general public. Although historians of Java have endeavoured to incorporate Javanese sources in their research, it remains invaluable to view that history directly through the eyes of 17th and 18th century Javanese contemporaries.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.languageJavaneseen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writersen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2P Oceanic and Austronesian languages::2PG Austronesian and Malayo-Polynesian languages::2PGN Indonesian languages::2PGND Javaneseen_US
dc.subject.otherJavanese language, Javanese prose writing, Javanese history, Early modern history, Asian studiesen_US
dc.titleBabad Tanah Jawi, The Chronicle of Javaen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Revised Prose Version of C.F. Winter Sren_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.24415/9789087283711en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy276c53fd-5f1d-4065-9fce-9628863ddca8en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9789087283810en_US
oapen.imprintLUP Academic
oapen.pages1086en_US
oapen.place.publicationLeidenen_US


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