Erik Kooper is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English in the Departments of English and of Medieval Studies at Utrecht University. He has published widely on Middle English literature, both in English and in Dutch. In 1996 he organised the first international conference on the medieval chronicle with the aim to bring together scholars in the fields of history, literature and art history in an effort to combine research of this elusive but highly characteristic medieval genre.

• Contributors Preface David DUMVILLE:.What is a Chronicle? Michael AGNEW: The Fact of Fiction as Fact in the Crónica sarracina and its Implications in Fifteenth Century Castile Brigitte BURRICHTER: Historisches Berichten und literarisches Erzählen in Geffrei Gaimars Estoire des Engleis Xavier DECTOT : ‘E las cayssas hubrir, e las vertutz ostar’: Les déprédations dans la cathédrale de Pampelune pendant la prise de la Navarrería selon les chroniques de l’époque Henk DRAGSTRA: ‘This myghti William’: Why did Lydgate write his ‘Verses on the Kings of England since William the Conqueror’? Olivier ELLENA : Temps, représentation, identité: l’image de la guerre dans les Chroniques de Froissart (ms. fr. 2643 à 2646 de Ia B.N.F., Paris) Isabelle GUYOT-BACHY : La diffusion du Roman des roys avant la Guerre de Cent Ans : le manuscrit de Pierre Honoré, serviteur de Charles de Valois Reinhard HÄRTEL: Echte Chroniken in unechten Urkunden Joachim KNAPE: .Historiography as Rhetoric Sjoerd LEVELT: ‘This book, attractively composed to form a consecutive and orderly narrative’: The Ambiguity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie Purificación MARTÍNEZ: The Exaltation of the King in the Chronicle of Alfonso Xl Giedrė MICKŪNAITÉ: From Pamphlet to Origin Theory: The Establishment of Lithuanian Dynastic Tradition Jennifer NEVILLE: Making their own Sweet Time: The Scribes of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A Peter NOBLE: Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade: the Reign of Alexius V Gerrit J. REININK: Paideia: God’s Design in World History according to the East Syrian Monk John bar Penkaye Francesco SALVESTRINI: Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities Georg SCHEIBELREITER: Gegenwart und Vergangenheit in der Sicht Fredegars Ralf SCHLECHTWEG-JAHN: Monologisches und dialogisches Erzählen in deutschsprachigen Alexandertexten des Mittelalters Huguette TAVIANI-CAROZZI : Mythe et Histoire dans les Chroniques d’Italie du Sud (IXe- XIIe Siècles) Iliana TSCHEKOVA: Genese und kommunikative Funktion der altrussischen Nestor-chronik John WARD: From Chronicle and History to Satire, Travelogue and Sermo: the Decline of the Monastic Chronicle in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe

Erik Kooper is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English in the Departments of English and of Medieval Studies at Utrecht University. He has published widely on Middle English literature, both in English and in Dutch. In 1996 he organised the first international conference on the medieval chronicle with the aim to bring together scholars in the fields of history, literature and art history in an effort to combine research of this elusive but highly characteristic medieval genre.

• Contributors Preface David DUMVILLE:.What is a Chronicle? Michael AGNEW: The Fact of Fiction as Fact in the Crónica sarracina and its Implications in Fifteenth Century Castile Brigitte BURRICHTER: Historisches Berichten und literarisches Erzählen in Geffrei Gaimars Estoire des Engleis Xavier DECTOT : ‘E las cayssas hubrir, e las vertutz ostar’: Les déprédations dans la cathédrale de Pampelune pendant la prise de la Navarrería selon les chroniques de l’époque Henk DRAGSTRA: ‘This myghti William’: Why did Lydgate write his ‘Verses on the Kings of England since William the Conqueror’? Olivier ELLENA : Temps, représentation, identité: l’image de la guerre dans les Chroniques de Froissart (ms. fr. 2643 à 2646 de Ia B.N.F., Paris) Isabelle GUYOT-BACHY : La diffusion du Roman des roys avant la Guerre de Cent Ans : le manuscrit de Pierre Honoré, serviteur de Charles de Valois Reinhard HÄRTEL: Echte Chroniken in unechten Urkunden Joachim KNAPE: .Historiography as Rhetoric Sjoerd LEVELT: ‘This book, attractively composed to form a consecutive and orderly narrative’: The Ambiguity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie Purificación MARTÍNEZ: The Exaltation of the King in the Chronicle of Alfonso Xl Giedrė MICKŪNAITÉ: From Pamphlet to Origin Theory: The Establishment of Lithuanian Dynastic Tradition Jennifer NEVILLE: Making their own Sweet Time: The Scribes of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A Peter NOBLE: Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade: the Reign of Alexius V Gerrit J. REININK: Paideia: God’s Design in World History according to the East Syrian Monk John bar Penkaye Francesco SALVESTRINI: Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities Georg SCHEIBELREITER: Gegenwart und Vergangenheit in der Sicht Fredegars Ralf SCHLECHTWEG-JAHN: Monologisches und dialogisches Erzählen in deutschsprachigen Alexandertexten des Mittelalters Huguette TAVIANI-CAROZZI : Mythe et Histoire dans les Chroniques d’Italie du Sud (IXe- XIIe Siècles) Iliana TSCHEKOVA: Genese und kommunikative Funktion der altrussischen Nestor-chronik John WARD: From Chronicle and History to Satire, Travelogue and Sermo: the Decline of the Monastic Chronicle in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe

Erik Kooper is Senior Lecturer in Medieval English in the Departments of English and of Medieval Studies at Utrecht University. He has published widely on Middle English literature, both in English and in Dutch. In 1996 he organised the first international conference on the medieval chronicle with the aim to bring together scholars in the fields of history, literature and art history in an effort to combine research of this elusive but highly characteristic medieval genre.

• Contributors Preface David DUMVILLE:.What is a Chronicle? Michael AGNEW: The Fact of Fiction as Fact in the Crónica sarracina and its Implications in Fifteenth Century Castile Brigitte BURRICHTER: Historisches Berichten und literarisches Erzählen in Geffrei Gaimars Estoire des Engleis Xavier DECTOT : ‘E las cayssas hubrir, e las vertutz ostar’: Les déprédations dans la cathédrale de Pampelune pendant la prise de la Navarrería selon les chroniques de l’époque Henk DRAGSTRA: ‘This myghti William’: Why did Lydgate write his ‘Verses on the Kings of England since William the Conqueror’? Olivier ELLENA : Temps, représentation, identité: l’image de la guerre dans les Chroniques de Froissart (ms. fr. 2643 à 2646 de Ia B.N.F., Paris) Isabelle GUYOT-BACHY : La diffusion du Roman des roys avant la Guerre de Cent Ans : le manuscrit de Pierre Honoré, serviteur de Charles de Valois Reinhard HÄRTEL: Echte Chroniken in unechten Urkunden Joachim KNAPE: .Historiography as Rhetoric Sjoerd LEVELT: ‘This book, attractively composed to form a consecutive and orderly narrative’: The Ambiguity of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britannie Purificación MARTÍNEZ: The Exaltation of the King in the Chronicle of Alfonso Xl Giedrė MICKŪNAITÉ: From Pamphlet to Origin Theory: The Establishment of Lithuanian Dynastic Tradition Jennifer NEVILLE: Making their own Sweet Time: The Scribes of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle A Peter NOBLE: Eyewitnesses of the Fourth Crusade: the Reign of Alexius V Gerrit J. REININK: Paideia: God’s Design in World History according to the East Syrian Monk John bar Penkaye Francesco SALVESTRINI: Giovanni Villani and the Aetiological Myth of Tuscan Cities Georg SCHEIBELREITER: Gegenwart und Vergangenheit in der Sicht Fredegars Ralf SCHLECHTWEG-JAHN: Monologisches und dialogisches Erzählen in deutschsprachigen Alexandertexten des Mittelalters Huguette TAVIANI-CAROZZI : Mythe et Histoire dans les Chroniques d’Italie du Sud (IXe- XIIe Siècles) Iliana TSCHEKOVA: Genese und kommunikative Funktion der altrussischen Nestor-chronik John WARD: From Chronicle and History to Satire, Travelogue and Sermo: the Decline of the Monastic Chronicle in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Europe