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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

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Paperback: 9781580440424

Citation for Published Book

Dunphy, Graeme, ed. and trans. History as Literature. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2003

History as Literature

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