Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages

• Introduction: New Perspectives on Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages - Michele CampopianoThe First Islamic Chronicle: The Chronicle Of Khalifa B. Khayyat (d. AD 854) - Tobias Andersson and Andrew MarshamUniversal Historiography as Process? Shaping Monastic Memories in the Eleventh-Century Chronicle Of Saint-Vaast - Steven VanderputtenWriting Universal History in Eleventh-Century England: Cotton Tiberius B. i, German Imperial History-writing and Vernacular Lay Literacy - Elizabeth M. TylerPolitical Didacticism in the Twelfth Century: the Middle-High German Kaiserchronik - Claudia WittigCosmology, Theology of History and Ideology in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon - Michele CampopianoÉcrire l'histoire universelle à la cour de Konrad IV de Hohenstaufen : Rudolf von Ems et la Weltchronik (milieu du XIIIe siècle) - Christophe ThierryÉcrire la première histoire universelle en français: l'Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César de Wauchier de Denain et l'adaptation du modèle latin de l'histoire universelle à un public de laïcs - Catherine Gaullier-BougassasHow Unusual was Matthew Paris? The Writing of Universal History in Angevin England - Björn WeilerThe Pillars of Hercules: The Estoria De Espanna (Escorial, Y.I.2) as Universal Chronicle - Rosa M. Rodríguez PortoLa Vie d'Alexandre dans la Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes - Elena KorolevaUniversal Histories and their Geographies: Navigating the Maps and Texts of Higden's Polychronicon - Cornelia DreerUniversal Histories and their Geographies: Navigating the Maps and Texts of Higden's Polychronicon - Keith D. Lilley

This early product of the editors' research project at the University of York is a richly informative roundtable of thirteen historiographers exhibiting nine Christian European chronicles from the eleventh century to the thirteenth, bracketed by a ninth-century history from Muslim Iraq and the geographic enrichments of a fourteenth-century Latin chronicle fromEngland.