Erzählen von Macht und Herrschaft

Die ‚Kaiserchronik‘ im Kontext zeitgenössischer Geschichtsschreibung und Geschichtsdichtung

Contributions by Stephan Conermann Contributions by Mathias Herweg Contributions by Konrad Klaus Contributions by Alastair Matthews Contributions by Gesine Mierke Contributions by Alheydis Plassmann Contributions by Christoph Pretzer Contributions by Daniel F. Schley Edited by Elke Brüggen

Book cover: Erzählen von Macht und Herrschaft

Extent: 216 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(December 2019)

ISBN: 9783847110835

6.3 x 9.25 inches

Price: $69.00

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Die mittelhochdeutsche ‘Kaiserchronik’ entstand im 12. Jahrhundert und ist in der germanistisch-mediavistischen Forschung als ein bemerkenswertes Experiment historischen Erzahlens profiliert worden.


Recent research in the field of Middle High German literature has characterised the ‘Chronicle of the Emperors’, dating from the midst of the 12th century, as a very interesting experiment in narrating historical events. The volume at hand draws on these insights and at the same time rereads the text in a new context by looking at it from different European and Non-European disciplines. Current reflections on the genre status of the ‘Chronicle of the Emperors’, on the presence and the functionalisation of Rome within the text and on the treatment of spatio-temporal phenomena are linked with observations on the perception of dominance in Latin historiography of the 12th and in a Persian epic of the 14th century. Through a structural and thematic comparison with a contemporary work from Sanscrit literature and Japanese narratives about the court’s past, the Middle High German text as well as the research dealing with it appear in a new light.

  • Contributions by Stephan Conermann
  • Contributions by Mathias Herweg
  • Contributions by Konrad Klaus
  • Contributions by Alastair Matthews
  • Contributions by Gesine Mierke
  • Contributions by Alheydis Plassmann
  • Contributions by Christoph Pretzer
  • Contributions by Daniel F. Schley
  • Edited by Elke Brüggen