ABSTRACT
This chapter examines three humanists, Erasmus Stella, Johannes Cuspinian and Robert Gaguin, who used humanistic practices in different social, political and cultural contexts, and to show how these different contexts influenced their work. Robert Gaguin referred to the antique authority when he conceived his Compendium de origine et gestis de Francorum. Johannes Cuspinian and Robert Gaguin all participated in different but similar ways in the political affairs of their princely or royal authority, their social success and the success of their historiographical attempts differ substantially. Bouchart wrote this work relying only on the vernacular translation of Gaguin's chronicle and thirteenth-century French versions of Caesar. Erasmus Stella was well respected at the Grandmaster's court, he returned to Zwickau, where he worked as a physician until his death. Erasmus Stella himself who decided to give the text to the printer Johannes Froben, since all accompanying texts, such as the dedication or poem, referred only to Stella and to the situation in Prussia.
