Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Contributors xi
5. Introduction: New Perspectives on Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages 1
6. 1 The First Islamic Chronicle: The Chronicle Of Khalīfa B. Khayyāṭ (d. AD 854) 19
7. 2 Universal Historiography as Process? Shaping Monastic Memories in the Eleventh-Century Chronicle Of Saint-Vaast 43
8. 3 Writing Universal History in Eleventh-Century England: Cotton Tiberius B. i, German Imperial History-writing and Vernacular Lay Literacy 65
9. 4 Political Didacticism in the Twelfth Century: the Middle-High German Kaiserchronik 95
10. 5 Cosmology, Theology of History and Ideology in Godfrey of Viterbo’s Pantheon 121
11. 6 Écrire l’histoire universelle à la cour de Konrad IV de Hohenstaufen : la Weltchronik de Rudolf von Ems (milieu du XIIIe siècle) 141
12. 7 Écrire la première histoire universelle en français: l’Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César de Wauchier de Denain et l’adaptation du modèle latin de l’histoire universelle à un public de laïcs 179
13. 8 How Unusual was Matthew Paris? The Writing of Universal History in Angevin England 199
14. 9 The Pillars of Hercules: The Estoria De Espanna (Escorial, Y.I.2) as Universal Chronicle 223
15. 10 La Vie d’Alexandre dans la Chronique dite de Baudouin d’Avesnes 255
16. 11 Universal Histories and their Geographies: Navigating the Maps and Texts of Higden’s Polychronicon 275
17. Index 303