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Description
This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems's Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik, and the Weltchronik of Jans Enikel. These three works are close in language, in date, and in conception, yet they also differ significantly, representing the perspectives of three distinct sections of medieval society: courtly, monastic, and urban. The excerpts have been chosen from the beginning of Rudolf's chronicle, the middle of the Christherre-Chronik and the end of Enikel, so that taken together they give something of an impression of the chroniclers' arrangement of material in a continuum from the beginning to the end of history.
Publication Date
7-1-2003
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications
City
Kalamazoo
ISBN
9781580443920
Keywords
History; Middle High German Literature; Weltchronik
Disciplines
German Literature | Medieval History | Medieval Studies
Citation for Published Book
Dunphy, Graeme, ed. and trans. History as Literature. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003
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