The Medieval chronicle IV / / edited by Erik Kooper.

• Superior document: The Medieval Chronicle ; 4.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kooper, Erik.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval chronicles ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)
• Notes: "Whereas the third issue of The Medieval Chronicle was, like its predecessors, still basically a proceedings volume, since all its papers originated from the 3rd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle (Utrecht/Doorn 2002), the present one clearly shows the change to a regular "Yearbook of Chronicle Studies ... The opening paper ... and six others were first read at the 2002 Conference, the remaining six are original contributions."--Pref.

There are several reasons why the chronicle is particularly suited as the topic of a yearbook. In the first place there is its ubiquity: all over Europe and throughout the Middle Ages chronicles were written, both in Latin and in the vernacular, and not only in Europe but also in the countries neigh...

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Representing Royalty: Kings, Queens and Captains in Some Early Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts of Froissart's Chroniques
• Propaganda and essample in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's Chronique des ducs de Normandie
• Historicising Sainthood: The Case of Edward the Confessor in Vernacular Narratives
• The Missing Family: Silencing in the Crónica de don Álvaro de Luna
• Turnovo - New Constantinople: The Third Rome in the Fourteenth-Century Bulgarian Translation of Constantine Manasses' Synopsis Chronike
• Reisen der russischen Fürsten in die Horde: der Kulturdialog in den Chroniken
• Remembering the Barbarian Past: Oral Traditions about the Distant Past in the Middle Ages
• Fêtes d'armes et dévotions au XVe Siècle
• Between Chronicle and Legend: Image Cycles of St Ladislas in Fourteenth-Century Hungarian Manuscripts
• The Vikings and the Natives: Ethnic Identity in England and Normandy c. 1000 AD
• Abbasid Caliphs and Biblical Prophets: The Use of Dreams in Tabari's History of Prophets and Kings
• Die Heiligenlegende als multivalente Gattung zwischen klösterlich-dynastischer Memorialkultur, Chronistik und laikal-privater Andacht: Beobachtungen am Elisabethleben des Johannes Rothe
• Le cadre temporel des Grandes Chroniques: naissance et intégration du système de datation par rapport à la naissance du Christ
• The Chronicle of Montpellier H119: Text, Translation and Commentary.