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Godfrey of Viterbo and his Readers - Imperial Tradition and Universal History in Late Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Godfrey of Viterbo and his Readers - Imperial Tradition and Universal History in Late Medieval Europe (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Church, Faith and Culture in the Medieval West
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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. This wide distribution is
particularly surprising for an author like Godfrey whom modern
historians have never credited with any importance at all, as they
considered his works chaotic and historically unreliable. Yet
Godfrey was certainly one of the most daring historiographers of
his time. In his works, the lineage of the Hohenstaufen emperors
Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI is traced directly to Charlemagne
and Augustus, to the kings of Troy and of the Old Testament, and to
Jupiter and everyone who, in his view, wielded imperial power in
the past. 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 aims to revive Godfrey's reputation
by demonstrating how his works were understood by medieval readers.
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