Matthew Paris on the Mongol invasion in Europe /

Matthew Paris on the Mongol invasion in Europe /

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Author / Creator:	Reed, Zsuzsanna Papp, author.
Imprint:	Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2022] ©2022
Description:	469 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, 1378-8779 ; volume 38 Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; v. 38.
Subject:	Paris, Matthew, -- 1200-1259. -- Chronica majora. Chronica majora (Paris, Matthew) Mongols -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources. Middle Ages -- Sources. Middle Ages. Mongols. Europe -- History -- 476-1492 -- Sources. Europe -- History, Military -- To 1500 -- Sources. Europe. History. Military history. Sources.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13141527

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ISBN:	2503595529 9782503595528 9782503595535
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-451) and index.
Summary:	"This is a novel, interdisciplinary study of the Mongol military campaign in Eastern Europe (1241-1242) - the North, as thirteenth-century Europeans saw the region - in the works of contemporary English chronicler, Matthew Paris of St Albans Monastery. Tracing the journey of his sources, the volume explores thirteenth-century information networks against the backdrop of the struggle between Emperor Frederick II and Pope Innocent IV. Parallel to the history of information, the subject of the study is the 'Chronica majora' and its afterlife, Matthew's chronicle world where the sometimes fictitious (and often very real) episodes of the Mongol story unfold. Tracing major landmarks in the meta-history of the 'Chronica majora', the author wishes to emancipate Matthew Paris as a historian - one in the series of a multitude of others who continue to write and rewrite the history of the Mongol invasion across centuries of historiography. The volume is a handy companion both to scholars of English historiography and those who want to read critically the oft-cited primary sources of the history of the Mongol military operations in Europe"--Back cover.

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Inside the Book
Mise-en-abîme Within and Without
The North by the North-west
Chapter 2. Outside the Book
The Book in the Scriptorium
The Scriptorium in England
England in the European Networks
Northern Connections
The Council of Lyon in 1245
Chapter 3. Fright. Mongols in the North and East (1237-1240)
1237: Chaldeans, Medes, Persians, and Armenians
1238: Northbound to Hungaria major
1239: Dacia, Gothia, Frisia
1240: False Alarm and Irruption
Chapter 4. Fight. Mongols in the Middle (1241)
Holy War on the Mongols
The First 1241 Cluster
Henry Raspe's Letter
Frederick II's Letter
The Second 1241 Cluster
Chapter 5. Flight. Rivalling Stories of Retreat (1243-1248)
1243: The Tartar Khan's Englishman
1244: Fredericks Triumph
1244: The Man from Russia
1245-1248: Endgame
Chapter 6. Letters from the Afflicted Lands in the Additamenta
Chapter 7. The Afterlife of Matthew's Mongol Story
Chronicles and their Afterlife
The Flores historiarum
An Elizabethan Bestseller
Back to the Future: Modern Historiography
Loco prologi
Appendix 1. Alternating Storylines: Europe, Britain, and the Holy Land in 1237
Appendix 2. Comparison of Phrases
Appendix 3. Alternating Frederick's Story
Appendix 4. Mongol-Related Entries and Clusters: 1241
Appendix 5. Events and Rumours: 12.41 vs 1244
Appendix 6. List of Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index