The Medieval Chronicle 13: (13 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 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

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 four Middle English romances for the American TEAMS series (2006), an edition of the Middle English poem Arthur (2011), and several articles, such as one identifying a previously unnoticed Latin Prose Brut manuscript (2016). Sjoerd Levelt is Senior Research Associate of the project The Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Contacts, c.1050–1600 at the University of Bristol. 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 and Bilkent University (Ankara). He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was awarded the Society for Renaissance Studies Book Prize 2012.