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This volume presents excerpts and translations in parallel-text of three thirteenth-century South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems's Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. These three works are close in language, in date, and in conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval society: courtly, monastic, and urban. The excerpts have been chosen from the beginning of Rudolf's chronicle, the middle of the Christherre-Chronik and the end of Enikel, so that taken together they give something of an impression of the chroniclers' arrangement of material in a continuum from the beginning to the end of history.



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Introduction Bibliography Texts and Translations Weltchronik, Rudolf von Ems Christherre-Chronik Weltchronik, Jans Enikel Notes

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      Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/2003
      ISBN13: 9781580440424, 978-1580440424
      ISBN10: 1580440428

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This volume presents excerpts and translations in parallel-text of three thirteenth-century South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems's Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. These three works are close in language, in date, and in conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval society: courtly, monastic, and urban. The excerpts have been chosen from the beginning of Rudolf's chronicle, the middle of the Christherre-Chronik and the end of Enikel, so that taken together they give something of an impression of the chroniclers' arrangement of material in a continuum from the beginning to the end of history.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction Bibliography Texts and Translations Weltchronik, Rudolf von Ems Christherre-Chronik Weltchronik, Jans Enikel Notes

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