The Medieval Chronicle II
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle. Driebergen/Utrecht 16-21 July 1999
Published on 1. January 2002
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286 pages
978-90-420-0834-2 (ISBN)
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After the success of the first international conference on the medieval chronicle, it was decided that another would be in place. It was held in the summer of 1999, and again drew some 150 participants. There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of an international conference. 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.
Like its predecessor this volume of conference papers 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. They are introduced by the opening address by David Dumville, on the question What is a chronicle?
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.
Like its predecessor this volume of conference papers 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. They are introduced by the opening address by David Dumville, on the question What is a chronicle?
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English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Brill
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College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
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978-90-420-0834-2 (9789042008342)
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Erik Kooper is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English in the Departments of English and of Medieval Studies at Utrecht University. He has published widely on Middle English literature, both in English and in Dutch. In 1996 he organised the first international conference on the medieval chronicle with the aim to bring together scholars in the fields of history, literature and art history in an effort to combine research of this elusive but highly characteristic medieval genre.
Content
Contributors
Preface
David DUMVILLE:.What is a Chronicle?
Michael AGNEW: The Fact of Fiction as Fact in the Cronica sarracina and its Implications in Fifteenth Century Castile
Brigitte BURRICHTER: Historisches Berichten und literarisches Erzaehlen in Geffrei Gaimars Estoire des Engleis
Xavier DECTOT : 'E las cayssas hubrir, e las vertutz ostar': Les depredations dans la cathedrale de Pampelune pendant la prise de la Navarreria selon les chroniques de l'epoque
Henk DRAGSTRA: 'This myghti William': Why did Lydgate write his 'Verses on the Kings of England since William the Conqueror'?
Olivier ELLENA : Temps, representation, identite: l'image de la guerre dans les Chroniques de Froissart (ms. fr. 2643 a 2646 de Ia B.N.F., Paris)
Isabelle GUYOT-BACHY : La diffusion du Roman des roys avant la Guerre de Cent Ans : le manuscrit de Pierre Honore, serviteur de Charles de Valois
Reinhard HAERTEL: Echte Chroniken in unechten Urkunden
Joachim KNAPE: .Historiography as Rhetoric
Sjoerd LEVELT: 'This book, attractively composed to form a consecutive and orderly narrative': The Ambiguity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie
Purificacion MARTINEZ: The Exaltation of the King in the Chronicle of Alfonso Xl
Giedre MICKUNAITE: From Pamphlet to Origin Theory: The Establishment of Lithuanian Dynastic Tradition
Jennifer NEVILLE: Making their own Sweet Time: The Scribes of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A
Peter NOBLE: Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade: the Reign of Alexius V
Gerrit J. REININK: Paideia: God's Design in World History according to the East Syrian Monk John bar Penkaye
Francesco SALVESTRINI: Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities
Georg SCHEIBELREITER: Gegenwart und Vergangenheit in der Sicht Fredegars
Ralf SCHLECHTWEG-JAHN: Monologisches und dialogisches Erzaehlen in deutschsprachigen Alexandertexten des Mittelalters
Huguette TAVIANI-CAROZZI : Mythe et Histoire dans les Chroniques d'Italie du Sud (IXe- XIIe Siecles)
Iliana TSCHEKOVA: Genese und kommunikative Funktion der altrussischen Nestor-chronik
John WARD: From Chronicle and History to Satire, Travelogue and Sermo: the Decline of the Monastic Chronicle in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe
Preface
David DUMVILLE:.What is a Chronicle?
Michael AGNEW: The Fact of Fiction as Fact in the Cronica sarracina and its Implications in Fifteenth Century Castile
Brigitte BURRICHTER: Historisches Berichten und literarisches Erzaehlen in Geffrei Gaimars Estoire des Engleis
Xavier DECTOT : 'E las cayssas hubrir, e las vertutz ostar': Les depredations dans la cathedrale de Pampelune pendant la prise de la Navarreria selon les chroniques de l'epoque
Henk DRAGSTRA: 'This myghti William': Why did Lydgate write his 'Verses on the Kings of England since William the Conqueror'?
Olivier ELLENA : Temps, representation, identite: l'image de la guerre dans les Chroniques de Froissart (ms. fr. 2643 a 2646 de Ia B.N.F., Paris)
Isabelle GUYOT-BACHY : La diffusion du Roman des roys avant la Guerre de Cent Ans : le manuscrit de Pierre Honore, serviteur de Charles de Valois
Reinhard HAERTEL: Echte Chroniken in unechten Urkunden
Joachim KNAPE: .Historiography as Rhetoric
Sjoerd LEVELT: 'This book, attractively composed to form a consecutive and orderly narrative': The Ambiguity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie
Purificacion MARTINEZ: The Exaltation of the King in the Chronicle of Alfonso Xl
Giedre MICKUNAITE: From Pamphlet to Origin Theory: The Establishment of Lithuanian Dynastic Tradition
Jennifer NEVILLE: Making their own Sweet Time: The Scribes of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A
Peter NOBLE: Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade: the Reign of Alexius V
Gerrit J. REININK: Paideia: God's Design in World History according to the East Syrian Monk John bar Penkaye
Francesco SALVESTRINI: Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities
Georg SCHEIBELREITER: Gegenwart und Vergangenheit in der Sicht Fredegars
Ralf SCHLECHTWEG-JAHN: Monologisches und dialogisches Erzaehlen in deutschsprachigen Alexandertexten des Mittelalters
Huguette TAVIANI-CAROZZI : Mythe et Histoire dans les Chroniques d'Italie du Sud (IXe- XIIe Siecles)
Iliana TSCHEKOVA: Genese und kommunikative Funktion der altrussischen Nestor-chronik
John WARD: From Chronicle and History to Satire, Travelogue and Sermo: the Decline of the Monastic Chronicle in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe