Christ Chronicle

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The Christherre Chronicle is an anonymous world chronicle in Middle High German rhyming pairs. It is named after its first verse: Crist herre keizer uber alle craft . It was written in Thuringia at the court of Heinrich the Illustrious (ruled 1247–1288), probably by a clergyman in the service of this ruler. Therefore it is also called “Thuringian World Chronicle” in older secondary literature, but this can lead to confusion. After a long, strongly theological prologue , it tells the story of the Old Testament from creation to the Book of Judges , where it breaks off after 24,330 verses.

Several allusions to Rudolf von Ems' “Weltchronik” - including the opening verse (Rudolf begins with Richter Got, herre ubir alle kraft ) - suggest that the Christian poet deliberately wanted to offer a spiritual answer to the courtly Rudolf.

In the late 13th century, the Christherre Chronicle was continued with parts from other works, including ironically from Rudolf's Chronicle. It was also put together in compilations with the "Weltchronik" of Jan des Enikels . The Codex Palatinus Germanicus 146 offers an example of this .

In the 14th century it offers important parts of Henrich von Munich's world chronicle compilations . It has been handed down only in such connections, never in a “pure text form”.

An edition is currently being prepared in Trier.

literature

  • Graeme Dunphy (Ed.): History as Literature. German World Chronicles of the Thirteenth Century in Verse , Kalamazoo 2003.
  • Ralf Plate: The tradition of the "Christherre Chronicle" (knowledge literature in the Middle Ages, Vol. 28), Wiesbaden 2005 (plus Trier, Univ. Diss.), ISBN 3-89500-030-2 .
  • Johannes Rettelbach: Studies for the "Weltchronik" Heinrichs von München, Vol. 2: From the "Extended Christherre-Chronik" to the editorial department α , 2 volumes (Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, Vol. 30,1 und 30,2), Wiesbaden 1998, ISBN 3-89500-033-7 .
  • Monika Schwabbauer: Profane history in salvation history. Source investigations on the incidents of the "Christherre Chronicle" (Vestigia bibliae, vol. 15/16), Bern-Berlin a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-906757-61-7 .

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