- Storiografie italiane del XII secolo
- Edited by Alberto Cotza, Markus Krumm
Regieren mit Bildern. Funktion und Rezeption der Genueser Annalen im Spiegel ihrer Randzeichnungen
- Richard Engl
- © 2024 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3.19
The Genoese annals are famous as an early and official Italian communal chronicle written by laymen. However, comparatively little research has been done on the drawings accompanying Cafaro’s and Oberto’s annals in the surviving original manuscript BNF ms. Lat. 10136. This article re-dates these drawings, closes gaps in the iconographic interpretation – particularly with regard to animal motifs, ships and floral ornaments – and reconstructs verisimilar functions of the images. These were probably intended to make it easier for the ruling elite to access important historical knowledge, to affirm the communal constitutional model and to emphasise memories that created unity and identity.
- Keywords:
- Middle Ages,
- 12th century,
- Genoa,
- Caffaro,
- Oberto,
- illuminated manuscripts,
- historiography,
- commune,
University of Munich, Germany - ORCID: 0000-0002-5914-0839
Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Regieren mit Bildern. Funktion und Rezeption der Genueser Annalen im Spiegel ihrer Randzeichnungen
Authors
Richard Engl
Language
German
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3.19
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Storiografie italiane del XII secolo
Book Subtitle
Contesti di scrittura, elaborazione e uso in una prospettiva comparata
Editors
Alberto Cotza, Markus Krumm
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
354
Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3
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979-12-215-0402-6
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Reti Medievali E-Book
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2704-6362
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2704-6079