HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor

WORLD HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 163use of a structuring according to the reigns of popes and emperors.The connection of world history and Landesgeschichte demands a structuredtreatment. Observations regarding structures, tendencies asregards content, and the authors’ explanations regarding conceptionswill be the methodological tools for transmitting the motifs and conceptionsof world chronicles.High Middle Ages Martin of Troppau Flores Temporum Latin world Vernacular worldchronicles chronicles inin Germany Germany, Saxonworld chronicleand Upper GermantranslationAround 1350 Johann of Viktring, Munich worldMathias of chronicle,Neuenburg Heinrich Taube1350–1400 Cologne world chronicle, Heinrich of Herford, Closener, Konrad ofHalberstadt, Twinger of KönigshofenBeginning of the Andreas of Regensburg, Gobelinus Person, Johannes Rothe,15th century Dietrich EngelhusMiddle of the Thomas Ebendorfer, Platterberger/ Fourth Bavarian Supplement of15th century Truchseß, Monk Albert the Saxon world chronicleEnd of the Hartmann Schedel, Nauclerus, Konrad Stolle, Rolevink,15th century Johannes MeierChronological Order of the ChroniclesThe chronicles in question can be divided into several temporal categories.First one should mention those whose own period of recordingis connected directly to that of Martin of Troppau, in particularJohann of Viktring and Mathias of Neuenburg.We find the closest approximation of a German national historyin the imperial history of Johann of Viktring. Indeed, he apparentlyworked himself slowly toward this conception, after having wantedat first to embed a younger Austrian Landesgeschichte in an imperialhistory, using refined Latin and the model of classical historians. 2323Moraw (1987); Fichtenau (1975).