Episcopal chronicle

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Episcopal chronicle is a bishopric and diocese history , therefore a sequence of episcopal biographies of the institution “diocese”.

Chronicles is the name of the type of (medieval and early modern) historiography, which combines news about historical processes and events and presents them in an orderly manner. In addition to the world (universal) chronicles , imperial and state chronicles , city and bishop chronicles were created (mainly) in the (later) Middle Ages . In particular, the episcopal chronicles had u. a. Their roots were in the Carolingian gestures of bishops and abbots and were based on the model of the Liber pontificalis , the semi-official history of the popes with the basic biographical data of the Roman bishops and the notable events of the respective pontificate times. The bishop's chronicle is thus a personal historiography, it tells the story of people who were active as functionaries in a certain institution - the diocese - and who succeeded each other in it.

The episcopal chronicle (of the later Middle Ages) fits into the variety of historiographical genera of the Middle Ages ( chronicon, annales, historia, gesta, res gestae, vita, fundatio, genelogia, catalogus ): chronicle, catalog, gesta and vita flow here - also from a developmental point of view - into one another. This takes place within the framework of a reflective visualization, a historiographically designed excerpt from the past, which in the case of the bishop's chronicle or the bishop's catalog wants to represent the series of office holders and functionaries. This presentation of the institution “diocese”, which was designed in this way, corresponded to the request conveyed in this way to identify with the bishops as (mostly exemplary) officials. The deeds worthy of remembrance, the honoring memory of the bishops served to imitate, but especially to preserve and secure the institution that was regarded as given.

literature

  • Karl Schnith : The Augsburger Chronik of Burkard zinc. An investigation into the history of the imperial city in the 15th century. Munich 1958, (Munich, University, dissertation, 1958).
  • Karl Schnith: Chronicle. In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages. Tape. 2, col. 1954-2028, here: col. 1956-1960
  • Franz-Josef Schmale : Function and forms of medieval historiography. An introduction. 2nd, unchanged edition. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1993, ISBN 3-534-08568-X , pp. 105-123.

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