History and Chronicles in Late Medieval Iberia

Representations of Wamba in Late Medieval Narrative Histories
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20272-6
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Later Medieval Europe

The late medieval period in Iberia saw an explosion in the writing of narrative histories. In examining eighteen different, if related, accounts of the reign of the Visigothic king Wamba (r. 671-680) this book aims to analyse the nature of the discourse of the late medieval Iberian chronicle. By means of a detailed analysis of the content and narrative techniques of the chronicles concerned, the book seeks to address the question: to what extent is it possible to speak of a genre of late medieval Iberian chronicles?

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ward, Aengus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Spanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements. vii

Introduction. 1
1. Time. Past, present and future. 10
2. Truth, trustworthiness and legitimation.13
3. Representation and the content of chronicles. 15
4. Narrative.18

1: Context of Composition: Wamba in context(s) … 21
Chronicon Mundi.22
Historia Gothica, (1243/47). 27
Estoria de Espanna (primitiva 1270). 31
Estoria de Espanna (enmendada 1274).37
Estoria de Espanna (version critica 1282). 38
Liber Regum. 40
Libro de las Generaciones. 43
Estoria delos godos. 46
Sumario analístico de la Historia Gothica. 50
Toledano romanzado (1400?). 53
Estoria del fecho de los godos.54
Crónica de Espanha de 1344a. 56
Crónica de Espanha de 1344b. 59
Arreglo toledano de la Crónica de 1344.62
Grant Crónica de Espayna de Juan Fernandez de Heredia. 65
Crónica d’Espayña de García de Eugui. 68
Textual relations:. 70

2: Wamba in history, the history of Wamba. I.
Narration and compilation. 73

3: Wamba in history, the history of Wamba. II.The detail of history. 107
Lucas de Tuy, Chronicon Mundi.108
Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, Historia Gothica. 117
Alfonso X el Sabio, Estoria de Espanna.124
The Navarrese tradition: the Liber Regum and the Libro de las generaciones. 135
Translations of the Historia Gothica.139
Wamba in Portugual. 146
Crónica de Espanha de 1344a.146
Crónica de Espanha de 1344b.148
Navarre and Aragon: Wamba reclaimed. 155
Crónica d’Espayña de Garcia de Eugui. 155

4: History in the making: Text, context and the dynamics of medieval chronicles. 161
The past in the present, the present in the past. 162
Re-writing the past: 1. Loci of historiographical action. 174
Origins of Wamba and his right to rule. 174
The relationship between king, people and patria: the nature of kingship. 175
Law giving. 176
Papal authority, divine inspiration and the role of the Church. 178
Re-writing the past: 2. Techniques. 179
Appropriation and naturalisation.179
Abbreviation, imbrication, substitution, displacement, suppression and addition. 180
Direct Speech. 181
Textual organization. 183
Wamba and the discourse of medieval chronicles.183
Genealogies of texts. 186
Structuring devices. Time past, present and future:. 187
Truth, trustworthiness and authenticity; representation, legitimation and content. 191
Language, prose and narrative. 195

Conclusion.198

Bibliography. 209
Index. 215

Über Autor(innen)

Aengus Ward, Ph.D. (1995, Birmingham) is a senior lecturer in Hispanic Studies at the University of Birmingham. He is the author of multiple works on medieval Iberian historiography including critical editions of 3 late medieval chronicles and is the Iberian chronicles editor of the Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (Brill, 2010).