Description
Book SynopsisThere are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neighbouring on it, like those of the Arabic world. Secondly, all chronicles raise such questions as by whom, for whom, or for what purpose were they written, how do they reconstruct the past, what determined the choice of verse or prose, or what kind of literary influences are discernable in them. Finally, many chronicles have been beautifully illuminated, and the relation between text and image leads to a wholly different set of questions. The yearbook 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. The Medieval Chronicle is published in cooperation with the Medieval Chronicle Society.
Table of ContentsContributors Preface Peter AINSWORTH: Representing Royalty: Kings, Queens and Captains in Some Early Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts of Froissart’s Chroniques Peter DAMIAN-GRINT: Propaganda and essample in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Chronique des ducs de Normandie Tamar S. DRUKKER: Historicising Sainthood: The Case of Edward the Confessor in Vernacular Narratives Lynne ECHEGARAY: The Missing Family: Silencing in the Crónica de don Álvaro de Luna Miliana KAIMAKAMOVA: Turnovo – New Constantinople: The Third Rome in the Fourteenth-Century Bulgarian Translation of Constantine Manasses’ Synopsis Chronike Jitka KOMENDOVÁ: Reisen der russischen Fürsten in die Horde: der Kulturdialog in den Chroniken Marco MOSTERT: Remembering the Barbarian Past: Oral Traditions about the Distant Past in the Middle Ages Christiane RAYNAUD: Fêtes d’armes et dévotions au XVe Siècle Béla Zsolt SZAKÁCS: Between Chronicle and Legend: Image Cycles of St Ladislas in Fourteenth-Century Hungarian Manuscripts Letty ten HARKEL: The Vikings and the Natives: Ethnic Identity in England and Normandy c. 1000 AD Johan WESTSTEIJN: Abbasid Caliphs and Biblical Prophets: The Use of Dreams in Tabari’s History of Prophets and Kings Jürgen WOLF: Die Heiligenlegende als multivalente Gattung zwischen klösterlich-dynastischer Memorialkultur, Chronistik und laikal-privater Andacht: Beobachtungen am Elisabethleben des Johannes Rothe Véronique ZARA: Le cadre temporel des Grandes Chroniques: naissance et intégration du système de datation par rapport à la naissance du Christ Jeffrey S. WIDMAYER: The Chronicle of Montpellier H119: Text, Translation and Commentary
