HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor
HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor
WORLD HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES 165the Habsburgers as dukes in the Alsatian region. Events from Baseland Strasbourg are also weighed heavily. A Heilsgeschichte is missing.While the enhanced status of the country in the overall frame ofworld history certainly did play a role for Mathias, this enhancedstatus does not become an organizational principle for him, in contrastto others. Neither is his work characterized by imperial idealism.One must satisfy oneself with viewing Mathias in the role of awriter continuing previous work. This role gives him the opportunityto spread a sober, Christian, humanistic worldview, shaped bytopoi such as the backwardness of the world and key concepts suchas the potentia that brings everything into being. 27Chronicles that link up with the Flores Temporum should be includedin this first category of world chronicles. 28 The Flores Temporum area departure from Martin of Troppau, but they do include a detaileddepiction of the first five epochs. The conception of Heilsgeschichte isthereby strengthened vis-à-vis Martin of Troppau.In their original version, the Flores Temporum ordered the pope andemperor sections parallel to each other on opposite pages, as inMartin of Troppau’s version. The Flores contained in numerous manuscriptsalso contain copies in which chapters on pope and emperoralternate. In contrast to Mathias of Neuenburg, the pope chaptershave not been slipped into longer emperor chapters. Rather, popechapters follow completed emperor chapters. In a third group ofmanuscripts, papal history and imperial history are handled subsequentlyin one sequence or another and are completely self-contained.We know from the studies of Anna Dorothée von den Brinckenthat the numerous copies of Martin of Troppau also contain bothof these models that depart from the order of the original version. 29Current research differentiates several stages within the continuationsof the Flores Temporum. A first stage extends to 1313. Someresearchers observe in this stage a stronger consideration of imperialhistory than previously attested. “The death of Henry VII, unlikealmost any other death of the previous 500 years, represents a greatloss for the entire world”. 30 In this stage of the continuation, the27Bossard (1944); Moraw (1987); Sprandel (1994), 43–53.28Flores temporum, ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH SS 24 (1879), 226–60.29Von den Brincken (1985, 1989).30Mierau (1996).
166 ROLF SPRANDELpope section has been added to the emperor section according tothe orders of the three previously mentioned models. The pope sectiondeals with problems of the Catholic Church as a whole andwith friction between mendicant orders and local parish priests. Theauthor of this stage of the text also amends older sections of theFlores with additions of imperial historical material and, in so doing,alters the profile of the chronicle as a whole.The latter also applies to the second stage of continuations, whichextends to 1349/1350. This second stage adds not onto the first continuationbut, rather, onto the original Flores, and it offers a differenttext that parallels the first stage for the period extending to 1313.It is now known in three printed versions, 31 but its tradition is widerstill. Characteristics of the content include a critique of Boniface VIIIand sentiment against the papacy of Avignon that succeeds him, aswell as a statement in favor of Ludwig of Bavaria regarding hisconflict with the papacy.While the Flores continuations up to this point have, for the mostpart, similar content at every stage, they split after 1349/1350 intoregionally colored, individual histories that vary significantly in content.In part, they still maintain the pope-emperor arrangement andstill can be considered world histories in that respect. Some, however,let this drop. The former is true for the Munich world chronicle,in which pope and emperor chapters alternate. 32 The secondstage of the Flores continuations breaks off after depicting CharlesIV’s ascension to the throne with the help of many gifts. The Munichworld chronicle continues this tendency, in particular with regard tothe papacy of Avignon. There is a gap with Charles IV, but thisking is mentioned with Urban V in a critically distant tone.Heinrich Taube occupies a special position. 33 He also continuesthe Flores, but must not be compared with the continuations consideredso far, for he offers his own original text extending to 1363.Heinrich Taube also has the pope and emperor chapters followingeach other. Following a chapter about Innocent VI (†1362) is a chapterabout Charles IV, which, however, breaks off in the middle of31Eckhart (1723); Eysenhard ( 2 1750); Sprandel (1994).32Münchener Weltchronik, ed. R. Sprandel, in Chronisten als Zeitzeugen (Köln, 1994),Anhang 2.33Heinrich Taube von Selbach, Chronik, ed. Breslau.
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WORLD <strong>HISTORIOGRAPHY</strong> <strong>IN</strong> <strong>THE</strong> LATE <strong>MIDDLE</strong> <strong>AGES</strong> 165the Habsburgers as dukes in the Alsatian region. Events from Baseland Strasbourg are also weighed heavily. A Heilsgeschichte is missing.While the enhanced status of the country in the overall frame ofworld history certainly did play a role for Mathias, this enhancedstatus does not become an organizational principle for him, in contrastto others. Neither is his work characterized by imperial idealism.One must satisfy oneself with viewing Mathias in the role of awriter continuing previous work. This role gives him the opportunityto spread a sober, Christian, humanistic worldview, shaped bytopoi such as the backwardness of the world and key concepts suchas the potentia that brings everything into being. 27Chronicles that link up with the Flores Temporum should be includedin this first category of world chronicles. 28 The Flores Temporum area departure from Martin of Troppau, but they do include a detaileddepiction of the first five epochs. The conception of Heilsgeschichte isthereby strengthened vis-à-vis Martin of Troppau.In their original version, the Flores Temporum ordered the pope andemperor sections parallel to each other on opposite pages, as inMartin of Troppau’s version. The Flores contained in numerous manuscriptsalso contain copies in which chapters on pope and emperoralternate. In contrast to Mathias of Neuenburg, the pope chaptershave not been slipped into longer emperor chapters. Rather, popechapters follow completed emperor chapters. In a third group ofmanuscripts, papal history and imperial history are handled subsequentlyin one sequence or another and are completely self-contained.We know from the studies of Anna Dorothée von den Brinckenthat the numerous copies of Martin of Troppau also contain bothof these models that depart from the order of the original version. 29Current research differentiates several stages within the continuationsof the Flores Temporum. A first stage extends to 1313. Someresearchers observe in this stage a stronger consideration of imperialhistory than previously attested. “The death of Henry VII, unlikealmost any other death of the previous 500 years, represents a greatloss for the entire world”. 30 In this stage of the continuation, the27Bossard (1944); Moraw (1987); Sprandel (1994), 43–53.28Flores temporum, ed. O. Holder-Egger, MGH SS 24 (1879), 226–60.29Von den Brincken (1985, 1989).30Mierau (1996).