HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor

168 ROLF SPRANDELbishop and city in the thirteenth century and a kind of early warmonograph. The civil city history is arranged according to overarchingthemes such as fires, war marches, persecutions of Jews,et al., which in turn are ordered chronologically and contain regionalsources, including again the Chronicon Ellenhardi among others.Twinger, in contrast, reinforced the embeddedness in world historyby preparing a book about the first five [world] epochs. Herelies there mainly on the Latin world historiography of the GermanHigh Middle Ages. The books about emperors and popes follow thisone. Already the order of both is reversed, in comparison withClosener, which also certainly is meaningful. For the younger emperors,Twinger relies additionally on Mathias of Neuenburg. Both parts,but in particular the pope section, are considerably amended, usingalso excerpts from Martin of Troppau. A history of the bishops ofStrasbourg follows, as with Closener (there the third part, in Twingerthe fourth part). For each, twenty-five pages became seventy-fivepages in the editing. At the beginning of this bishop-history, Twingerlets it be known once more how important it is for him that theLandesgeschichte be anchored in world history. He reports the supposedfirst episcopal appointment in Strasbourg by King Dagobert andembeds this in the chain of imperial history beginning with theRomans by considering the relationship of Romans, Franks, French,and Germans.The civil urban history of Strasbourg that follows begins againwith a history of origin. Then comes the history of Christianizationand the city’s expansion. Increasingly, Twinger comes closer toClosener’s scheme and orders the materials according to subject. Thesixth part comprises a register of key words arranged in alphabeticalorder. This register can be classified as belonging with the remaininglexicographical works of Closener and Twinger. Kirchert is,unfortunately, too brief with respect to the chronicles. However, heplaces the lexicographical works beyond the framework of merescholastic purposes and—probably correctly—understands them asspecific, tradition-rooted “organizational structures, which the mindplaces upon the world being depicted”. 37 By virtue of their arrangementand classification, along with the combination of Landesgeschichte37Kirchert (1993), 136.