HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor

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.