(Blossoms of the times)
ca 1300. Germany. World chronicle compendium in Latin prose. Written by an unknown Swabian Minorite (some manuscripts give Hermannus or Martinus Minorita) in the last years of the 13th century, the Flores temporum with its adaptations and continuations became one of the most widely spread world chronicles of the later Middle Ages in Southern Germany.
The Flores temporum was conceptualized as a tool for preparing homilies and sermons. Still, unlike contemporary world chronicles, it does include pre-Christian history, covering world …