Medieval Historiography

note on Charles Diehl

by Judith Soria

Co-authored with Jean-Michel Spieser, published in Philippe Sénéchal, Claire Barbillon, dir., Dictionnaire critique des historiens de l’art actifs en France de la Révolution à la Première Guerre mondiale, Paris, site web de l’INHA, 2009.

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle

by Sarah Peverley

Ed. R. G. Dunphy, Published Brill, Leiden and Boston 2010. Online version available via http://referenceworks.brillonline.com

Entries on twenty-three English and Latin Chronicle(r)s: Adam of Usk, John Capgrave, William Caxton, Chronicle of the... more Entries on twenty-three English and Latin Chronicle(r)s: Adam of Usk, John Capgrave, William Caxton, Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire, Chronicon Abbatiae Rameseiensis (Chronicle of Ramsey Abbey), Thomas Croftis, John Gower, John Hardyng, Historie of the Arrival of King Edward IV, John of Glastonbury, Henry Knighton, Lives of Henry V, John Lydgate, John Malverne, New Croniclys, Robert of Gloucester, John Rous, Short English Metrical Chronicle, John Somer, Thomas Castleford, John Vale, Warkworth's Chronicle, Westminster Chronicle.

Orderic Vitalis: New perspectives on the historian and his world (Call for papers)

by Daniel Roach

9-11 April 2013, St John’s College, University of Durham

Call for papers
Orderic Vitalis:
New Perspectives on the Historian and His World

(9-11 April... more Call for papers
Orderic Vitalis:
New Perspectives on the Historian and His World

(9-11 April 2013, St John’s College, University of Durham)

The organising committee of the Durham University Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference 'Orderic Vitalis: New Perspectives on the historian and his world' invite abstracts from prospective speakers. This event, funded by the Durham University IMRS, will provide a forum for the dissemination of new research into the life and works of the monastic scholar, Orderic Vitalis. With plans already in place to publish a 'companion' volume on Orderic, this conference will aim to re-invigorate existing work and open new lines of research around a figure whose legacy has proven vital to scholars of the Anglo-Norman world.

While the conference welcomes papers on a wide scope of topics, we particularly invite abstracts for papers relating to the following areas:

•The manuscript history of Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica.

•Orderic's scholarly and scribal career away from the Historia ecclesiastica.

•Orderic’s travels, administrative activities, and studies away from Saint-Évroul.

•Orderic’s world view and his networks of knowledge-exchange and transfer.

•The 'rediscovery' of the Historia ecclesiastica by early modern audiences, and Orderic's subsequent influence on the development of Anglo-Norman studies.

Prospective speakers are invited to submit abstracts of between 250-300 words, and should also include their contact details (name, affiliation, e-mail address). The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2012. Limited bursaries towards travel costs will be offered to postgraduate speakers. If you wish to apply for one of these, please indicate this when submitting an abstract.

For further information about Orderic Vitalis: New perspectives on the historian and his world or to submit an abstract, please email Charlie Rozier, at: c.c.rozier@durham.ac.uk or Dan Roach at: dr229@exeter.ac.uk, or visit:
www.dur.ac.uk/imrs/conferences/orderic_vitalis/

Un chemin de roi : Pierre IV d'Aragon dans son Livre.

by stéphane péquignot

published in "Pierre Monnet, Jean-Claude Schmitt (dir.), Autobiographies souveraines, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne (Histoire ancienne et médiévale, 113), 2012, p. 179-200".

L'accès à l'information et les méthodes de travail d'un lettré bagdadien du Ve/XIe siècle / Access to information and methods of work of a 5th/11th century Baghdadi scholar

by Vanessa Van Renterghem

This article focuses on information sources and work methods of Arab medieval historians, through examining the... more This article focuses on information sources and work methods of Arab medieval historians, through examining the original example of a Hanbali Baghdadian scholar, Ibn al-Bannā’ (d. 471 h./1079 CE). This author left some personal notes probably meant to be later used for historiographical writing. In most case, Ibn al-Bannā’ had been the witness of the actor of the events he reports on; in others, travelers (merchants and scholars) were the source of information. They were using oral as much as written transmission, the written documents being mainly merchant letters brought by caravans. Then the news would be collected and afterwards spread in Baghdad by some riche Hanbali merchants and patrons. Public rumor would also spread important political or military news. The information collected by Ibn al-Bannā’ was nevertheless mainly local in nature, concerning Baghdad, Iraq, or rarely the neighboring areas (Syria, Palestine, Ġazīra, Iran, Arabia) but never other parts of the world. Finally, the author’s sociability networks appear as essential in collecting information.
Keywords: Baghdad, information, chronicles, history, Arab historians, rumor, merchant letters, Hanbalism, Hanbalis, Ibn al-Bannâ’, Ibn al-Bannā’, networks, sociability.

Книга Исход в Речи Философа

by Tetiana (Татьяна) Vilkul (Вилкул)

forthcoming

Mnisi - fundatorzy - pismo. Cronica Domus Sarensis na tle dziejopisarstwa klasztornego XI - XIV wieku, in: Christianitas Romana. Studia ofiarowane Profesorowi Romanowi Michałowskiemu, red. K. Skwierczyński, Warszawa 2009

by Marcin Pauk

Заимствования из Восьмикнижия у киевских летописцев XII – начала XIII в.

by Tetiana (Татьяна) Vilkul (Вилкул)

published in: Ruthenica, Т. Х (2012), 102-116.

“¿Media Tempestas? Las raíces cristianas de Europa y la Leyenda Negra de la Edad Media”.

by Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña

Published in "Traditio Catholica: reflexiones en torno a las raíces cristianas de Europa", eds. Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez de la Peña y Francisco Javier López Atanes, CEU Ediciones, Madrid, 2009, pp. 15-44.

A conquista de Santarém na tradição historiográfica portuguesa

by Armando de Sousa Pereira

Володимир Мономах: тексти і версії / Український історичний журнал. 2004. № 1, 53-71

by Tetiana (Татьяна) Vilkul (Вилкул)

‘“This book, attractively composed to form a consecutive and orderly narrative” - The Ambiguity of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie’, in: E. Kooper, E. de Bree (eds), The Medieval chronicle: proceedings of the 2nd international conference on the medieval chronicle (Rodopi, Amsterdam [etc.], 2003), pp. 130-143.

by Sjoerd Levelt

Since its publication in the late 1130’s, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie has been a central text in... more Since its publication in the late 1130’s, Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie has been a central text in insular historiographical discourse. Most appropriations, both medieval and modern, have successively attempted to provide unequivocal interpretations of the text. Its ambiguous nature however, has often caused such interpretations, in spite of their respective validity, to be contradictory and mutually exclusive. Thus, in order to understand the reception of Historia regum Britannie, an understanding of its ambiguous nature is essential. The paper provides such an understanding, focusing on Geoffrey of Monmouth’s attitude towards the historiographical tradition in which he wrote his history.

Известие «Повести временных лет» о Любечском снеме 1097 г.: интерпретации и ошибочные чтения / Славяноведение (2009), № 2, 16-24.

by Tetiana (Татьяна) Vilkul (Вилкул)

Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish History

by Matthew Hammond

Il mito di Ercole fondatore nella tradizione erudita bresciana

by Simone Signaroli

in Ercole il fondatore. Dall'antichità al Rinascimento, catalogo della mostra (Brescia, S. Giulia Museo della città, febbraio-giugno 2011), a cura di M. Bona Castellotti e A. Giuliano, Milano, Electa, 2011, pp. 128-137

Memorie di storia municipale all’inizio del Seicento: primi appunti archivistici dal comune di Brescia, “Aevum”, 83 (2009), pp. 851-858

by Simone Signaroli

Some documents from the historical archive of the commune of Brescia attest that, in the early seventeenth century,... more Some documents from the historical archive of the commune of Brescia attest that, in the early seventeenth century, the municipality of that town was institutionally preserving both epigraphical and manuscript evidences of its own history. In 1605, the text of a classic inscription was registered in one of the communal administrative books. Then, in 1607, a manuscript of Iacopo Malvezzi’s Chronicon, written by Tommaso Mercanda in 1545, was acquired by the commune. This book still lies in the city historical archive (Brescia, Archivio di Stato, Archivio Storico Civico 1463). On the same occasion another manuscript was bought too: a copy of Cristoforo Soldo’s vernacular chronicle, indentifiable as the manuscript now Brescia, Biblioteca Queriniana, K VI 23, copied by the same Tommaso Mercanda.

Cronike van der Duytscher Oirden

by Rombert Stapel

Co-authored with G. Vollmann-Profe.
Published in: R.G. Dunphy (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle 1 (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2010) 328-329.

La arenga de Tariq b. Ziyad: un ejemplo de creación retórica en la historiografía árabe

by Omayra Herrero

«La Grant corónica de los conquiridores de Juan Fernández de Heredia: problemas codicológicos y ecdóticos»

by Alberto Montaner

La Rioja en la Alta Edad Media a través de la Arqueología

by José María Tejado

Published in: VASCONIA EN LA ALTA EDAD MEDIA, 450-1000. PODERES Y COMUNIDADES RURALES EN EL NORTE PENINSULAR, J. A. Quirós (ed.), pp. 163 - 180. País Vasco (España), Servicio de publicaciones de la Universidad del País Vasco, 2011, ISBN 978-84-9860-538-9

Abstract: This paper will address various issues and from different perspectives. First, it will carry out a... more Abstract: This paper will address various issues and from different perspectives. First, it will carry out a historiographical analysis of the contributions have been made from the La Rioja area in the field of early medieval archeology. A brief contextual analysis will bring us closer to how and why the state in which these studies are currently in this area in particular. Furthermore, using the main works and sites as a thread, we can get closer to an updated analysis as concise as possible in different thematic study. Once this process, it is necessary to propose some reflections and personal considerations to propose lines of work in the near future and a qualitative leap, in our opinion, of these archaeological studies of the early Middle Ages in La Rioja.

Keywords: Historiography archaeological, rural and urban areas, sites, potential, work proposals.
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Resumen: En este trabajo se van a abordar diferentes problemáticas y desde diversas perspectivas. En primer lugar, se va a llevar a cabo un análisis historiográfico de las aportaciones que se han hecho desde el ámbito riojano en el campo de la Arqueología altomedieval. Un breve análisis contextual nos acercará al cómo y porqué del estado en que actualmente se encuentran estos estudios en este territorio en concreto. Por otro lado, utilizando los principales trabajos y yacimientos a modo de hilo conductor, podremos acercarnos a un diagnóstico actualizado lo más sintético posible en sus diferentes temáticas de estudio. Una vez realizado todo este proceso, resulta necesario plantear algunas reflexiones y consideraciones personales para proponer líneas de trabajo que en un futuro cercano posibilitasen un salto cualitativo, en nuestra opinión, en estos estudios arqueológicos de la Alta Edad Media en La Rioja.

Palabras clave: Historiografía arqueológica, territorio rural y urbano, yacimientos, potencialidad, propuestas de trabajo.