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Tradizioni liquide, forme testuali e ambienti di (ri)elaborazione: il caso del cosiddetto Anonimo Vaticano

  • Fulvio Delle Donne

The Historia Sicula of the so-called Anonimus Vaticanus, titled by some manuscripts Chronica Roberti Biscardi et fratrum ac Rogerii comitis Mileti, is interesting for two reasons: it offers a useful narrative of the history of southern Italy between the 11th and 13th centuries; moreover, it represents a fairly typical example of historiographical compilation. It lacks an author and a sure title; contains information that partially coincides with the so-called Malaterra; it has a distinctly bipartite textual tradition, in which one branch arrives at the death of Roger I of Altavilla (1101), the second at the beginning of Vespers (1282); has structural inconsistencies; some significant fragments are also incorporated in other texts. This article focuses on the typical processes of aggregative construction of many late medieval chronicles characterized by a low gradient of authorship: they are “liquid texts” par excellence, because they constantly adapt themselves to the multiple needs of other more or less aware chroniclers, compilers, copyists.

  • Keywords:
  • Middle Ages,
  • 11th-13th centuries,
  • Kingdom of Sicily,
  • chronicles,
  • textual traditions,
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Fulvio Delle Donne

University of Basilicata, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-9130-0820

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Chapter Title

Tradizioni liquide, forme testuali e ambienti di (ri)elaborazione: il caso del cosiddetto Anonimo Vaticano

Authors

Fulvio Delle Donne

Language

Italian

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0403-3.21

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Publication Year

2024

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CC BY 4.0

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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

Copyright Information

© 2024 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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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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979-12-215-0403-3

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979-12-215-0405-7

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Reti Medievali E-Book

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2704-6362

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2704-6079

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