The Medieval Chronicle 15 : Essays in Honour of Erik Kooper

The study of medieval chronicles is firmly established as a focus of research in the whole range of disciplines comprising Medieval Studies: literature, history, art history, linguistics, book history, digital humanities, and so forth. Each article in this volume dedicated to Erik Kooper presents a case study, balancing the particulars of the chosen materials with more generalized conclusions about their significance. The resulting collection is an anthology of different approaches in Medieval Chronicle Studies, presenting a rich overview of the geographical, linguistic, chronological and methodological diversity of chronicle research as it has developed in no small part thanks to Erik's rallying. Contributors are Marie Bláhová, Cristian Bratu, Beth Bryan, Godfried Croenen, Peter Damian-Grint, Kelly DeVries, Isabel Barros Dias, Graeme Dunphy, Márta Font, Chris Given-Wilson, Ryszard Grzesik, Isabelle Guyot-Bachy, Letty Ten Harkel, Michael Hicks, David Hook, Sjoerd Levelt, Julia Marvin, Charles Melville, Firuza Abdullaeva, Martine Meuwese, Sarah Peverley, Jaclyn Rajsic, Lisa Ruch, Françoise Le Saux, Carol Sweetenham, Grischa Vercamer, Alison Williams Lewin, and Jürgen Wolf. ‎Contents 8 ‎Preface 12 ‎Abbreviations 15 ‎Notes on Contributors 17 ‎1. Die ‚Geschichte in Daten‘ im mittelalterlichen Böhmen (Bláhová) 20 ‎2. Authorship in Medieval Breton Chronicles (Bratu) 34 ‎3. A Peculiar Polychronicon for a Peculiar Prose Brut: The Trevisa Abridgement in Cleveland, Dublin, and Oxford Manuscripts (Bryan) 45 ‎4. The Bruges Manuscript and Book III of Jean Froissart’s Chroniques (Croenen) 59 ‎5. Historian as Hagiographer? Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Saintly Duke of Normandy (Damian-Grint) 74 ‎6. The Changing Versions of Froissart’s Description of the Battle of Sluys, 1340 (DeVries) 87 ‎7. On Friendship as Motivation and Object of the Historiographic Works of Pedro Afonso de Barcelos (Barros Dias) 97 ‎8. Perlocutionary and Illocutionary Chronicling: How an Ostensibly Constative Activity Affects the World around It (Dunphy) 108 ‎9. The Southern Principalities of Rus’ in the First Novgorodian Chronicle (Font) 119 ‎10. English Translation of John Strecche’s Chronicle for the Reign of Henry IV (Given-Wilson) 133 ‎11. Lost Polish Chronicle(s) in the Hungarian-Polish Chronicle (Grzesik) 144 ‎12. À l’ombre des fleurs de lys: l’Abrégé du Ménestrel d’Alphonse de Poitiers (Guyot-Bachy) 155 ‎13. Three Chronicles by London Clergymen and the Yorkist Version of the First War of the Roses (Hicks) 167 ‎14. Creative Copyists (Hook) 180 ‎15. The Printing of the Middle English Prose Brut and the Early Stages of Anglo-Dutch Publishing (Levelt) 192 ‎16. A City of Two Tales: Late Medieval Siena (Williams Lewin) 207 ‎17. Stumps, Branches and Trees: Patterns of Manuscript Survival versus Patterns of Textual Influence in the Prose Brut Tradition (Marvin) 219 ‎18. The Image of Alexander the Great in Persian History, Epic and Romance (Melville and Abdullaeva) 231 ‎19. Painted History in Chinon (Meuwese) 247 ‎20. Divining the Past in London, Wellcome Library MS 8004: A Study and Edition of the Historical Notes in a Fifteenth-Century English Compendium (Peverley) 259 ‎21. Expanding the Family: Royal Genealogical Rolls and the Prose Brut Chronicle (Rajsic) 272 ‎22. (Re)Deeming the Historia Croylandensis as Historical Fiction (Ruch) 286 ‎23. Dating the Past in Wace’s Roman de Rou (Le Saux) 299 ‎24. 1095 and All That: Brief Reflections on Social Memory and the ‘Non-Canonical’ Texts of the First Crusade (Sweetenham) 310 ‎25. Between Material Reality and Literary Topos: ‘Towns’ in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ten Harkel) 324 ‎26. Die Kritik des einen Autors entspricht dem Lob des Anderen (Vercamer) 338 ‎27. Lübeck Welthistorisch: Die Anfänge der Städtisch-Lübischen Geschichtsschreibung um 1300 (Wolf) 359 ‎Bibliography of Publications by Erik Kooper Since 2007 374 ‎Index 377