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Book SynopsisAlongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors The imperium in Alfonso X’s Historiography Inés Fernández-Ordóñez Autorité spirituelle et pouvoir royal chez Wace: pour une relecture du Roman de Rou Cristian Bratu Remarks on the Use of Numbers by Medieval Chroniclers in Battle Narratives Pierre Courroux ‘Du commencement du monde depuis que Dieu ot fait ciel et terre’: Une chronique universelle en français composée à Valenciennes sous le règne de Philippe le Bel Isabelle Guyot-Bachy Paroemiae to SS Boris and Gleb: Complementarity of Chronicles and Liturgical Canon in the Creation of the Image of the First Russian Saints Victoria Legkikh Translatio Imperii, translatio linguarum? On Medieval Universal Chronicles Produced around the Holy Roman Empire Mariana Leite Between Authorship and Anonymity: The Case of the Venetian Chronicles Șerban V. Marin Rethinking the Chronicle: Modern Genre Theory Applied to Medieval Historiography Ramunė Markevičiūtė Richard II’s Rejection of Counsel in the Westminster Chronicle and Thomas Walsingham’s Chronica Maiora Henry F.T. Marsh Constructing Political Time: Temporal Structures of Meaning in the Old Swedish Chronicles Prosaiska krönikan and Lilla rimkrönikan Margaretha Nordquist The Textual Tradition of Bar ʿEbroyo’s Chronography and its Continuations: First Soundings Simone I.M. Pratelli 2000 Cows and 4000 Pigs at One Sitting: Was the Gesta Francorum Written to be Performed in Latin? Carol Sweetenham Bloodless Turks and Sanguine Crusaders: William of Malmesbury’s Use of Vegetius in His Account of Urban II’s Sermon at Clermont James Titterton Review: Bertrand Boysset, Chronique. Éd. et présentée par P. Gautier-Dalché, Marie-Rose Bonnet et Philippe Rigaud Isabelle Guyot-Bachy Review: Livia Visser-Fuchs, History as Pastime. Jean de Wavrin and His Collection of Chronicles of England Antoine Brix
