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Regieren mit Bildern. Funktion und Rezeption der Genueser Annalen im Spiegel ihrer Randzeichnungen

  • Richard Engl

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,
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Richard Engl

University of Munich, Germany - ORCID: 0000-0002-5914-0839

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  • Publication Year: 2024
  • Pages: 279-307
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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

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2024

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© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

Bibliographic Information

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

Copyright Information

© 2024 Author(s)

Content License

CC BY 4.0

Metadata License

CC0 1.0

Publisher Name

Firenze University Press

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3

ISBN Print

979-12-215-0402-6

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979-12-215-0403-3

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979-12-215-0405-7

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Reti Medievali E-Book

Series ISSN

2704-6362

Series E-ISSN

2704-6079

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