Chronicling history : chroniclers and historians in medieval and Renaissance Italy

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Chronicling history : chroniclers and historians in medieval and Renaissance Italy

edited by Sharon Dale, Alison Williams Lewin and Duane J. Osheim

Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-312) and index

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Literally thousands of annals, chronicles, and histories were produced in Italy during the Middle Ages, ranging from fragments to polished humanist treatises. This book is composed of a set of case studies exploring the kinds of historical writing most characteristic of the period. We might expect a typical medieval chronicler to be a monk or cleric, but the chroniclers of communal and Renaissance Italy were overwhelmingly secular. Many were jurists or notaries whose professions granted them access to political institutions and public debate. The mix of the anecdotal and the cosmic, of portents and politics, makes these writers engaging to read. While chroniclers may have had different reasons to write and often very different points of view, they shared the belief that knowing the past might explain the present. Moreover, their audiences usually shared the worldview and civic identity of the historians, so these texts are glimpses into deeper cultural and intellectual contexts. Seen more broadly, chronicles are far more entertaining and informative than narratives. They become part of the very history they are describing.

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Contents Preface Introduction 1. Lombard City Annals and the Social and Cultural History of Northern Italy Edward Coleman 2. History Writing in the Twelfth-Century Kingdom of Sicily Graham A. Loud 3. The Genoese Civic Annals: Caffaro and His Continuators John Dotson 4. Salimbene de Adam and the Franciscan Chronicle Alison Williams Lewin 5. The Villani Chronicles Paula Clarke 6. Chronicles and Civic Life in Giovanni Sercambi's Lucca Duane J. Osheim 7. Fourteenth-Century Lombard Chronicles Sharon Dale 8. Venetian History and Patrician Chroniclers John Melville Jones 9. Chronicles into Legends and Lives: Two Humanist Accounts of the Carrara Dynasty in Padua Benjamin G. Kohl 10. Challenging Chronicles: Leonardo Bruni's History of the Florentine People Gary Ianziti 11. From the Roman Empire to Christian Imperialism: The Work of Flavio Biondo Nicoletta Pellegrino Bibliography Index

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