The Medieval Chronicle 11: (11 The Medieval Chronicle)

Alongside 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 Contents:
Preface List of Contributors 1 Eyewitness and Medieval Historical Narrative  Marcus Bull 2 La Chronique de Memmingen : histoire et luttes politiques dans une ville d’ Empire au XVe siècle  Dominique Adrian 3 Le rôle du connecteur car (ou nam/enim) dans la prose historique : connecteur interphrastique ?  Anders Bengtsson 4 The Vindication of Sancho II in the Crónica de Castilla: Political Identity and Historiographical Reinvention in Medieval Castilian Chronicles  Kim Bergqvist 5 Faux Pas in the Chronicles: What is a Pas d’ armes?  Cathy Blunk 6 The Perception and Evaluation of Foreign Soldiers in the Wars of King Peter I of Cyprus: The Evidence of the Cypriot Chronicles and Its Shortcomings  Nicholas Coureas 7 ‘Toujours loyal’: A Middle Dutch Chronicle of Flanders by Jan van Dixmude in Sixteenth-Century Ghent  Lisa Demets 8 Using an Example: Denis Sauvage, Philippe de Commynes and the ‘Vieil Exemplaire’  Catherine Emerson 9 Reassessing Spanish Chronicle Writing before 900: The Tradition of Compilation in Oviedo at the End of the Ninth Century  Rodrigo Furtado 10 Decennovenal Reason and Unreason in the C-Text of Annales Cambriae  Henry Gough-Cooper 11 The Battle of Gallipoli 1416: A Detail Rescued from a Chronicle  John Melville-Jones 12 The Origins of the Polish Piast Dynasty as Chronicled by Bishop Vincent of Kraków (Wincenty Kadłubek) to Serve as a Political Model for His Own Contemporary Time  Grischa Vercamer 13 Review: The Chronicle of Amadi, Translated from the Italian by Nicholas Coureas and Peter Edbury  Karl Borchardt 14 Review: Éloïse Adde-Vomáčka, La Chronique de Dalimil  Ivan Hlaváček 15 Anthony Munday’s ‘Briefe Chronologicall Suruay Concerning the Netherlands’ and the Medieval Chronicle Tradition of Holland in the Early Modern Period: Introduction and Edition  Sjoerd Levelt

About the Author :
Erik Kooper received both his MA and Ph.D. degrees from Utrecht University, where he taught Old and Middle English until his retirement in 2007. Since then he has regularly taught courses and given guest lectures both at his own university, the Nijmegen Radboud University, and abroad. His recent publications include an edition of the Middle English poem Arthur (2011), and several articles, mostly on Middle English historiographical texts. Sjoerd Levelt is Assistant Professor at the Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University, Ankara. He studied Dutch and English Medieval Studies in Amsterdam, Berkeley and Oxford, received his Ph.D. in Combined Historical Studies at the Warburg Institute, and previously taught at the Universities of Exeter and Sussex. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded the Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize 2012.

Review :
"Přechod k novému vydavateli umožnil lepší grafickou úpravu stránky a užití nového typu písma, především pak umístění poznámek pod text místo na konec studií (Trl.: The transition to a new publisher enabled a better graphic design of the page and the use of a new font, above all then placing notes below the text instead of at the end of the studies.) [...] Významnou inovací oproti předchozím ročníkům je zařazení recenzí prací o středověkých kronikách (Trl.: A significant innovation compared to previous years is the inclusion reviews of works on medieval chronicles.) [...] Publikované příspěvky se, jak je u časopisu The Medieval Chronicle obvyklé, vyznačují vysokou odbornou úrovní. Chvályhodná je také snaha editorů zařazovat tématicky různorodé příspěvky, stejně jako příspěvky z různých geografických a společenských prostředí, což umožňuje srovnávání historiografických textů z různých oblastí Evropy a zjišťování jejích společných rysů i místních specifik" (Trl.: As is usual for The Medieval Chronicle, the published contributions are characterized by a high professional level. The effort of the editors to include thematically diverse contributions, as well as contributions from different geographical and social environments, is also commendable, which enables the comparison of historiographical texts from different regions of Europe and the identification of its common features and local specificities.) Marie Bláhova in Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica 20/2, 2017, 198-202