HISTORIOGRAPHY IN THE MIDDLE AGES - Julian Emperor

312 BERT ROESTde mundi aetatibus of the Minorite friar Pontius Carbonel (ca. 1260–1350)from Barcelona, 134 the Summa de aetatibus of the Franciscan John ofUdine († ca. 1366), 135 and the Summa de temporibus of the DominicanÉtienne de Lessines (fl. ca. 1270). 136A fifth category consists of the mendicant missionary and ambassadorialhistories with links to the imago mundi tradition. Sometimes,these works were even fully incorporated into larger historiographicalworks. This happened for instance with the Historia Tartarorum ofthe Dominican friar Simon of St. Quintin (fl. ca. 1247), which hassurvived through its insertion in Vincent of Beauvais’ Speculum historiale.137 Likewise, the Franciscan John Marignolla included his descriptionand history of the Middle and Far East in his Cronica Bohemorum,whereas Elemosina of Gualdo and John of Winterthur also insertedsuch materials in their own universal chronicles. Yet such missionaryand ambassadorial histories survived separately as well, witnessthe Historia Tartarorum of John of Pian Carpine, the story of Williamof Rubruck and the famous Itinerarium of Odoric of Pordenone. Theseworks testify to the missionary exploits, ambassadorial missions andethnographical interests of the Franciscans. 138A sixth category is formed by mendicant national and dynastichistories, connected with the mendicant presence at the royal courtsof Europe. Good Dominican examples are the Annales sex regum Angliaeof Nicholas Trevet († after 1334), 139 and the various historical compendiafor the Aragonese court by Pedro Marsili (fl. 1315), 140 JacobDominici († ca. 1384), Antonio Ginebreda (†1395), and John Garciaof Calatayud (†1459). 141 Among the Franciscans, we can single out134MS Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya 545 (Dalmases 30). Wyngaert (1949).135Cf. Frohne (1992).136Kaeppeli (1970–93), 1:13.137Cf. Guzman (1974), 87–306.138For a survey of such texts see Roest (1996), 101–23; Guéret-Laferté (1994);and the introduction of Jackson (1990). On generic overflow with other kinds oftravel literature, see Richard (1981).139Trevet wrote several chronicles on the request of the English royal family,namely the Annales sex regum Angliae (ca. 1320–23, which chart the rule of the Englishkings from Stephen to Edward I), a wide-ranging Historia ab origine mundi ad Christumnatum (ca. 1327–28), and the Anglo-Norman Chronicles, a universal chronicle with astrong English focus. Both in his Chronicles and in his Annales, Trevet treats theAngevin house and the Dominican order in detail, sometimes to the detriment ofother contemporary events. Dean (1976), 328–52; Kaeppeli (1970–93), 3:187–96.140On his Chronica gestorum Iacobi I Aragoniae see Robles (1972).141See the work of Robles mentioned above, as well as Kaeppeli (1970–93),1:113, 2:439–40. This listing is by no means exhaustive.