MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02285cam a2200337 i 4500
001 2014049235
003 DLC
005 20151025073636.0
008 141224s2015 enka b 101 0 eng
010 $a 2014049235
020 $a9781472442680 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $z9781472442697 (ebook)
020 $z9781472442703 (epub)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPA8330.G6$bZ63 2015
082 00 $a873/.03$223
245 00 $aGodfrey of Viterbo and his readers :$bimperial tradition and universal history in late medieval Europe /$cedited by Thomas Foerster.
264 1 $aFarnham, Surrey, England :$bAshgate Publishing Limited ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate Publishing Company,$c2015.
300 $axiii, 195 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aChurch, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"This collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imperial notary wrote a series of historical collections that gained considerable and lasting popularity: between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, his works were copied in elaborate manuscripts in almost all of Latin Europe. Godfrey was a herald of the new political ideas the Hohenstaufen developed after the years of defeat against the papacy and the Italian communes, but also a universal chronicler whose interests reached far beyond the political issues of his day. Bringing together a group of specialists on manuscripts and historical writing in late medieval England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Bohemia and Poland, this volume demonstrates how Godfrey's works were understood by medieval readers"--$cProvided by publisher.
500 $aBased on an academic conference at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway held in late 2012 -- Preface.
600 00 $aGodfrey,$cof Viterbo,$d-1191?$xInfluence.
650 0 $aMiddle Ages$xHistoriography.
650 0 $aEurope$xHistoriography.
700 1 $aFoerster, Thomas,$d1977-$eeditor.