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Chronicling history : chroniclers and historians in medieval and Renaissance Italy
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Chronicling history : chroniclers and historians in medieval and Renaissance Italy

Author: Sharon Dale; Alison Williams Lewin; Duane J Osheim
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Literally thousands of annals, chronicles, and histories were produced in Italy during the Middle Ages, ranging from fragments to polished humanist treatises. They become part of the very history they are describing. This book is composed of a set of case studies exploring the kinds of historical writing most characteristic of the period.
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Chronicling history.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007
(OCoLC)606507085
Online version:
Chronicling history.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007
(OCoLC)608351391
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sharon Dale; Alison Williams Lewin; Duane J Osheim
ISBN: 9780271032252 0271032251 9780271032269 027103226X
OCLC Number: 124539030
Description: xix, 332 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Lombard city annals and the social and cultural history of northern Italy / Edward Coleman --
History writing in the twelfth-century kingdom of Sicily / Graham A. Loud --
The Genoese civic annals : Caffaro and his continuators / John Dotson --
Salimbene de Adam and the Franciscan chronicle / Alison Williams Lewin --
The Villani chronicles / Paula Clarke --
Chronicles and civic life in Giovanni Sercambi's Lucca / Duane J. Osheim --
Fourteenth-century Lombard chronicles / Sharon Dale --
Venetian history and patrician chroniclers / John Melville-Jones --
Chronicles into legends and lives : two humanist accounts of the Carrara dynasty in Padua / Benjamin G. Kohl --
Challenging chronicles : Leonardo Bruni's History of the Florentine people / Gary Ianziti --
From the Roman empire to Christian imperialism : the work of Flavio Biondo / Nicoletta Pellegrino.
Responsibility: edited by Sharon Dale, Alison Williams Lewin, and Duane J. Osheim.
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Literally thousands of annals, chronicles, and histories were produced in Italy during the Middle Ages, ranging from fragments to polished humanist treatises. They become part of the very history they are describing. This book is composed of a set of case studies exploring the kinds of historical writing most characteristic of the period.

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