UNIVERSAL CHRONICLES IN THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES Others analyse the background of universal chronicles, and identify their circulation amongst different social groups there are also investigations into their literary discourse, patronage, authorship and diffusion. Several chapters address the manuscript context, looking at the innovative techniques of compilation, structure and layout that placed them at the cutting edge of medieval book technology. The essays here offer new perspectives on the genre, from a number of different disciplines, demonstrating their vitality, ﬂexibility and cultural importance, They reveal them to be deeply political texts, which allowed history-writers and their audiences to locate themselves in space, time and in the created universe. They reveal a great deal about how the societies that produced them understood their world and how historical narrative itself can work to produce that understanding. Universal chronicles narrate the history of the whole world from the time of its creation up to the then present day, treating the world’s affairs as though they were part of a single organic reality, and uniting various strands of history into a uniﬁed, coherent story. Ound in pre-modern cultures of every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-modern cultural forms and one of the most overlooked. Bibliothèque municipale de Colmar, MS 305, cliché irhT. Front cover: rudolf von Ems, Weltchronik. rodriguez porto, Christophe Thierry, Elizabeth M.Tyler, Steven Vanderputten, Bjorn Weiler, Claudia Wittig. CONTriBUTOrS: Tobias andersson, Michele Campopiano, Cornelia Dreer, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Elena Koroleva, Keith Lilley, andrew Marsham, rosa M. hENrY BaiNTON is Lecturer in high Medieval Literature at the University of York. MiChELE CaMpOpiaNO is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin Literature at the University of York. Hohenstaufen : la Weltchronik de Rudolf von Ems (milieu duħ Écrire la première histoire universelle en français: l’HistoireĪncienne jusqu’à César de Wauchier de Denain et l’adaptationĭu modèle latin de l’histoire universelle à un public de laïcsĨ How Unusual was Matthew Paris? The Writing of Universalĩ The Pillars of Hercules: The Estoria De Espanna (Escorial, Y.I.2)ġ0 La Vie d’Alexandre dans la Chronique dite de Baudouin d’Avesnesġ1 Universal Histories and their Geographies: Navigating the i, German Imperial History-writing andĤ Political Didacticism in the Twelfth Century: the Middle-Highĥ Cosmology, Theology of History and Ideology in Godfrey ofĦ Écrire l’histoire universelle à la cour de Konrad IV de Memories in the Eleventh-Century Chronicle Of Saint-Vaastģ Writing Universal History in Eleventh-Century England:Ĭotton Tiberius B. KhayyāṭĢ Universal Historiography as Process? Shaping Monastic Introduction: New Perspectives on Universal Chronicles in theġ The First Islamic Chronicle: The Chronicle Of Khalīfa B.

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