Medieval Historical Writing
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Из «Истории Испании» («Первой всеобщей хроники», 1272). Пер. со старокастильского и комм. О.В. Аурова 82 Из «Истории Испании» («Первой всеобщей хроники», 1272). Битва при Лас-Навас-де-Толоса Перевод со старокастильского, вступительная... more
The article offers the first detailed study of a hitherto underappreciated narrative of the early years of Latin Settlement in Outremer following the First Crusade (1095–99), the Secunda pars historiae Iherosolimitane, often attributed to... more
forthcoming in: in: Des chartes aux constitutions. Autour de l’idée constitutionnelle en Europe (XIIe-XVIIe siècles), ed. François Foronda and Jean-Philippe Genet
(Paper of 2014)
(Paper of 2014)
Russian commented translation of some fragments of the so named "Crónica del Moro Rasis" ("Chronicle of the Moor Rasis"), a 15th century Castilian translation of the lost Arabic original of the 10th cen. Русский комментированный перевод... more
This book chapter investigates the way in which chroniclers in thirteenth-century England understood the political conflicts between Henry III and Simon de Montfort. It focuses on the use of biblical models for interpreting the changing... more
Listen bilden ein historisches und kulturelles Kontinuum in der Schriftverwendung und stellen auch in mittelalterlichen Libri vitae das grund-sätzliche Ordnungsmedium dar. Die Bücher wurden im späten 8. und frühen 9. Jahrhundert in... more
La vitalité des recherches sur l'écrit cistercien ne s'est pas démentie au cours des dernières décennies ; elle s'est illustrée par de nouvelles éditions de sources, une attention accrue portée aux « pancartes » monastiques, documents... more
The paper is devoted to characterize the Spanish Early Medieval hagiography as a special genre of Medieval historical writing, as a history (or biography) of saints. The peculiarities of the Spanish Lifes of Saints are studied in the... more
IV Jornadas Internacionales de Ficcionalización y Narración en la Antigüedad, el Tardoantiguo y el Medioevo “Un milenio de contar historias”
Buenos Aires, 27-29 de Noviembre 2019
Buenos Aires, 27-29 de Noviembre 2019
Hugo Falcandus, the author of the Liber (or Historia) de Regno Siciliae (1154–69), is a contentious figure among historians of the twelfth century. Often disgruntled and embittered, he wrote about the reigns of two Sicilian kings, William... more
The article examines the interpretation of Pompey the Great's (106–48 BC) image, in the medieval chronicle “Estoria de Espanna”, which was compiled in the vernacular (Castilian) language after 1270 at the court of Alfonso X the Wise, king... more
El objeto de la investigación es el problema del carácter de la evolución de la naturaleza del poder real en la Hispania visigoda de la segunda mitad del siglo VI. Cronologicamente este periodo sigue a la época de la história visigoda... more
The article is devoted to the forms and methods of using Pliny the Elder’s (c. 23–79) Natural History as a source of some episodes described in the medieval chronicle Estoria de Espanna (EE), compiled in the vernacular (Castilian)... more
This paper explores the tendency for English historical narratives of the late twelfth century to develop rounded portraits of royal characters by juxtaposing one or more kings. Linguistic choices could combine with the selection and... more
The author of the article tries to emphasize the part of some formal characteristics of manuscripts in the process of medieval chronicles analysis. The subject of the analysis is the cap. 1025 of the “First General Chronicle”, which... more
The article is dedicated to the problem of the reconstruction of the biography of the early medieval king Leovigild (568-586), who vas a governor of the Visigothic Kingdom of Toledo. His image was transformed by the centuries of the... more
Цель статьи – показать влияние средневековой историографии, написанной на разговорных языках, на формирование негативных представлений о мусульманах и исламе в латинской Европе. Подчеркивается, что такие сочинения имели много более... more
Rousing pre-battle speeches, exhorting warriors to deeds of valour, form a prominent element in many medieval Latin chronicles. Such literary speeches are highly revealing of their authors’ perceptions of motivation in warfare. Set within... more