HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor

WORLD HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 161This papal and church historiography does not belong to the worldhistory examined here. In our opinion, it stands in a historiographictradition that claims not the status of world history but, rather, thatof a history of the Church in and against the world. The course isset early for this differentiation. One need only recall that Eusebiuspublished a church history separate from a world history and therebyfounded a tradition. 16Then one recalls the imperial idealism of Henry VII and Ludwigof Bavaria and the imperial reform plans of Charles IV throughFrederick III and Maximilian. 17 To what extent do these provideimpetus and foundation for conceiving post-Staufer history as a worldempire history? On the other hand, one must consider the rise ofregional institutions and authorities. Can one not continue the traditionalworld history by giving special consideration to the localdynasty, the diocese or cloister, and the city, thereby enhancing theirstatus in relation to others?The French continuation of Martin of Troppau’s history reducesworld history first of all to a history of the [Avignonian] papacy, thento French history, and reflects thereby the loss of a world-historicalhorizon in French historiography. 18 There is no such loss in Germanhistoriography. Here there are regional histories with a world-historicalclassification along with regional histories that contain no suchclassification. The German imperial history of the late Middle Agesrepresents one problem. Is it comparable to French national historyor is it linked to the Latin and German-speaking imperial history ofthe High Middle Ages with its claim to world history?The Saxon world chronicle has an uncertain fate in the late MiddleAges. The so-called First Bavarian Supplement is attached to theUpper German translation, which itself, however, stems not fromBavaria but, rather, from the upper Rhine region. To this Supplementis attached another, which has disparate versions in the various traditions.One such version is the Fourth Bavarian Supplement, whichScriptores 11 (Milan, 1727), cols. 743–1242; Heinrich Truchseß von Diessenhofen,Chronik, 1316–1361, ed. J. F. Böhmer and A. Huber, Fontes rerum Germanicarum 4(Stuttgart, 1868), 16–126; Martin of Fulda, Chronicon, ed. J. G. Eccard, Corpus historicummedii aevi 1 (Leipzig, 1723), cols. 1642–1732.16Chesnut (1977); Grant (1980).17Molitor (1921); Folz (1953); Bader (1954); Angermeier (1958); Dempf (1962);Peuckert (1948/1966); Kampers (1896/1969).18Champion (1907).