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New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval genre of the universal chronicle.Found 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. 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 unifed, coherent story. 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.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. Several chapters address the manuscript context, looking at the innovative techniques of compil

Author

Michele Campopiano; Andrew Marsham; Bjrn Weiler; Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas; Christophe Thierry; Claudia Wittig; Cornelia Dreer; Elena Koroleva; Elizabeth M. Tyler; Keith D. Lilley; Rosa M. Rodrguez Porto; Prof Dr Steven Vanderputten; Tobias Andersson; Henry Bainton

Publisher

York Medieval Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781787440333

Subjects

History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction