Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle
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Edited by: Edited by Graeme Dunphy and Cristian Bratu
The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle brings together the latest research in chronicle studies from a variety of disciplines and scholarly traditions. Chronicles are the history books written and read in educated circles throughout Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages. For the modern reader, they are important as sources for the history they tell, but equally they open windows on the preoccupations and self-perceptions of those who tell it. Interest in chronicles has grown steadily in recent decades, and the foundation of a Medieval Chronicle Society in 1999 is indicative of this. Indeed, in many ways the Encyclopedia has been inspired by the emergence of this Society as a focus of the interdisciplinary chronicle community.
The online version was updated in 2014, 2016 and 2021.
Subscriptions: See Brill.com
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The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle brings together the latest research in chronicle studies from a variety of disciplines and scholarly traditions. Chronicles are the history books written and read in educated circles throughout Europe and the Middle East in the Middle Ages. For the modern reader, they are important as sources for the history they tell, but equally they open windows on the preoccupations and self-perceptions of those who tell it. Interest in chronicles has grown steadily in recent decades, and the foundation of a Medieval Chronicle Society in 1999 is indicative of this. Indeed, in many ways the Encyclopedia has been inspired by the emergence of this Society as a focus of the interdisciplinary chronicle community.
The online version was updated in 2014, 2016 and 2021.
Subscriptions: See Brill.com
Ferrandi, Petrus
(209 words)
13th century. France. Petrus Ferrandi, who is known to have died between 1252 and 1259, is the author of a chronicle of the Dominican order which covers the period from the arrival in Toulouse of the order's founder, Dominicus de Gúzman (1203), to the election of Humbertus de Romanis, the fifth Master-General of the Order (1254). It was long attributed to Gerald Frachet; it was only in 1932 that H.C. Scheeben advanced a compelling case for Ferrandi's authorship. The chronicle focuses on the early expansion of the Order, its alliances with secular princes and its relationship to the Curia. Bo…
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2021-04-15
Ferreti, Ferretto de'
(428 words)
1294-1337. Italy. Vicentine notary and historian, who wrote a long history of events in northern Italy between 1250 and 1318, as well as a poem on the origins of the della Scala family. Born in Vicenza in 1294 into a family of judges and notaries, Ferreto de' Ferreti was trained as a notary in his native city and elected head
(gastaldo) of the College of Notaries in 1320. In addition to his work in city government, Ferreti studied ancient authors, mainly the Latin poets, wrote a number of priapic verses (which survive only in fragments) and a long poem of the death of Dante, of whom he was an ear…
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2021-04-15
Festus
(205 words)
4th century. Thrace (Bulgaria). Proconsul of Asia. Written in winter 369-70, apparently in Marcianopolis, Festus'
Breviarium is the shortest surviving epitome of Roman history. It was written for the emperor Valens and is for the most part devoted to an enumeration of the provinces and Roman hostilities with the Parthians and Persians. It is therefore quite different in conception and purpose from the other
breviaria of the 4th century. The most important source was the
Kaisergeschichte. There are ten surviving manuscripts of the 9th-12th centuries, of which the best is the 10th-centu…
Date:
2021-04-15