Matthew Paris on the Mongol Invasion in Europe (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 38) (English and Latin Edition)

"This is a novel, interdisciplinary study of the Mongol military campaign in Eastern Europe (1241-1242) - the North, as thirteenth-century Europeans saw the region - in the works of contemporary English chronicler, Matthew Paris of St Albans Monastery. Tracing the journey of his sources, the volume explores thirteenth-century information networks against the backdrop of the struggle between Emperor Frederick II and Pope Innocent IV. Parallel to the history of information, the subject of the study is the 'Chronica majora' and its afterlife, Matthew's chronicle world where the sometimes fictitious (and often very real) episodes of the Mongol story unfold. Tracing major landmarks in the meta-history of the 'Chronica majora', the author wishes to emancipate Matthew Paris as a historian - one in the series of a multitude of others who continue to write and rewrite the history of the Mongol invasion across centuries of historiography. The volume is a handy companion both to scholars of English historiography and those who want to read critically the oft-cited primary sources of the history of the Mongol military operations in Europe"--Back cover Abbreviations 11 Introduction 15 Chapter 1. Inside the Book 25 Chapter 2. Outside the Book 55 Chapter 3. Fright. Mongols in the North and East (1237–1240) 123 Chapter 4. Fight. Mongols in the Middle (1241) 159 Chapter 5. Flight. Rivalling Stories of Retreat (1243–1248) 225 Chapter 6. Letters from the Afflicted Lands in the Additamenta 281 Chapter 7. The Afterlife of Matthew’s Mongol Story 313 Appendix 1. Alternating Storylines: Europe, Britain, and the Holy Land in 1237 369 Appendix 2. Comparison of Phrases 373 Appendix 3. Alternating Frederick’s Story 377 Appendix 4. Mongol-Related Entries and Clusters: 1241 379 Appendix 5. Events and Rumours: 1241 vs 1244 383 Appendix 6. List of Manuscripts 387 Bibliography 409 Index 453 Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 471