HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor

176 ROLF SPRANDELtaken up by Schedel and combined with the traditional scheme. 61The generation scheme of Nauclerus should be identified as originalorganizational model. The generation comprises thirty years. TheOld Testament has sixty-three generations. In the sixth Age datingfrom the birth of Christ, there are forty-five generations by 1350,and then another five by 1500. This scheme allows Nauclerus tolook away from pope and emperor and to combine everything fromthe various sources that is worthy of being remembered in the historyof mankind—to which indeed an ordering of ages refers directly.In the same period as the authors previously mentioned, KonradStolle writes the most important of the various continuations of theThuringian Johannes Rothe’s world chronicle. 62 In contrast to thosepreviously mentioned, Stolle is no longer published in the time ofthe incunabula and early printing, but did live on at least in therealm of Thuringian Landes-historiography. 63 At the same time, however,this did not reverse the expansion of Landesgeschichte that JohannesRothe undertook in his world history. Rather, he pushed the contextualemphasis on the world-historical horizon even further. Hedoes not return to the pope-emperor scheme but, rather, orders hissubjects thematically by listing histories under individual headings.The unpublished papal chronicle of Johannes Meyer represents aspecial case. Meyer writes a history of the Dominican Order anduses the pope-emperor scheme in order to allow the treasure of privilegesand the events in Dominican history to be assigned chronologicallyto the popes and emperors. Something parallel to thecombination of Landes- and world history is obviously at work here.Here, not a country but, rather, an order is placed in the worldframe. 64SummaryThe question posed at the outset regarding the conception of worldhistory in the late Middle Ages demonstrates the considerable multi-61Joachimsen (1910); Rücker (1988).62Konrad Stolle, Memoriale, bis 1502, ed. R. Thiele (Halle, 1900), 31–526.63Patze (1968), 107–08; Proksch (1994).64Albert (1898).