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
Ulmer Annalen
(341 words)
15th century. Germany. Two short vernacular lists of notes on the history of Ulm, which together with the
Ulmer Chronik are the only remnants of a medieval municipal chronicling tradition in the town; in this, Ulm contrasts sharply with the far denser tradition of town chronicles in other Upper German cities like Augsburg or Nuremberg. However, citations and references in later works, especially in the partly autobiographical chronicle of the cobbler Sebastian Fischer (mid-16th century) suggest that the two works are part of a considerably larger original corpus whic…
Date:
2021-04-15
Ulmer Chronik
(393 words)
15th century. Germany. Anonymous German-language town chronicle. Pfeiffer has suggested the author may have been the Ulm painter Hans Haller, also known as Hans Moser. The chronicle covers the years 1311-1474, though with many chronological irregularities and duplications of content, which reveal the use of a variety of now lost sources. The chronological report is also interrupted by an extended narrative insert on the siege of the city by Charles IV in 1377, and the cunning of the Ulm citizens who frustrated it. This excursus uses a variety of stylistic devices…
Date:
2021-04-15
Ungarorum historia
(641 words)
[a rege Geysa usque ad Ladislaum II brevissima] (Short history of the Hungarians from king (recte: prince) Géza to Ladislaus II) early 16th century. Germany. Latin chronicle of Hungary, found with other chronicles in a codex of
miscellanea: Vienna, ÖNB, cod. 3381, fol. 114v, 115r–116v. This codex also contains what appears to be the autograph of the
Chronicon urbis Moguntinae ab anno 399 usque ad 1519 of Jakob of Mainz (fol. 79va), which might suggest he is also the author of the Hungarian chronicle, as well as most of the other texts preserved in the codex. This J…
Date:
2021-04-15
Unique Chronicle of Sicily
(268 words)
[Chronicle of Cambridge] 11th century. Sicily. A short text in Greekabout the history of Arab Sicily, which remarkably is known also in an Arabic translation.From the manuscript tradition we can tentatively reconstruct the Greek title, Χρονογράφιον ἀφ᾽ οὗ εἰσῆλθον οἱ Σαρακηνοὶ ἐν Σικελίᾳ (Chronicle beginning at the point when the Saracens had entered Sicily). The misleading title
Chronicle of
Cambridge refers to the location of the Arabic manuscript, as this was known to scholarship before the Greek original.The text consists of 64 brief notes on the Arab rule in Sicily …
Date:
2021-04-15
Unrest, Jakob
(725 words)
ca 1430-1500. Austria. A clergyman, probably from Bavaria, active in Austria as parish priest in Techelsberg, Carinthia (1466-1500, probably not continuously) and a canon in Gurnitz (1469) and Maria Saal (1466-80). Author of three chronicles:
Österreichische Chronik, Kärntner Chronik and
Ungarische Chronik.The
Österreichische Chronik is recognized as his most significant work. Although he must have started writing it before 1480, it is clear that he based it on earlier notes. The first version of the chronicle begins with an account rela…
Date:
2021-04-15