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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Herweg, Mathias

Titel

Historical Narration and 'History-telling' The 'Kaiserchronik' in its Contexts Geschichte erzählen Die 'Kaiserchronik' im Kontext (nebst Fragen an eine historische Narratologie historischen Erzählens)

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur, 2017-10, Vol.146 (4), p.413-443

Ort / Verlag

Hirzel Verlag

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Quelle

Biblioscout - Franz Steiner Verlag Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This article investigates the conception of genre and narrative in the first chronicle and the first epic cycle of Roman myths and early Christian legends written in German, the 'Kaiserchronik' ('Emperors' Chronicle', ca. 1147). Its specific conceptual, structural and narrative features become evident in comparison to two other near-contemporary grand narratives of historiography, Otto of Freising's 'Chronica' and Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae': the (seeming?) antagonism between its programmatic prologue and its narrative practice; the friction between historical time and cyclical form; the conflict between historical accuracity and didactic aims; the narrative excess that neither historicity nor didacticism can contain; and finally the caesura in the narrative concept and style after Charlemagne's vita. Features like these indicate that the 'Kaiserchronik' has a specific conception of historical narration, which – far from premodern or modern concepts of fiction – is linked to the intended audience, the given linguistic and literary conditions and the setting ('Sitz im Leben') of the text, its author, patron and recipients.