Historical Writing in Central Europe (Bohemia, Hungary, Poland), c.950–1400
Abstrak
This chapter examines how, in Central Europe, historical writing emerged in connection to intertwined political and religious change between the late tenth and twelfth centuries: the establishment of polities and Christianization introduced by rulers. An ecclesiastical organization and personnel along with the rulers' patronage were the preconditions for local historiography. The correlation was not simply chronological; in its aims and themes, historical writing expressed and supported the power of Christian rulers and the new religion. Annals, gesta, chronicles, and saints' lives were produced, inspired by Western models, with Bohemian and Hungarian hagiography also incorporating Byzantine influences. The authors of almost all the texts were ecclesiastics, immigrants or locals, with laymen appearing exceptionally in the fourteenth century.
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Nora Berend
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- 2018
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- 10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0016
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