TY - BOOK ID - 3501951 TI - Godfrey of Viterbo and his readers : imperial tradition and universal history in late medieval Europe AU - Foerster, Thomas AU - University of Bergen PY - 2015 VL - *37 SN - 9781472442680 9781472442697 9781472442703 9781315585352 9781317126263 9781317126270 PB - Farnham Ashgate DB - UniCat KW - Middle Ages KW - Europe KW - Moyen Age KW - Historiography. KW - Historiographie KW - Godfrey, KW - Influence. KW - Influence KW - History as a science KW - Godfrey of Viterbo KW - Godefridus UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3501951 AB - "This collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imperial notary wrote a series of historical collections that gained considerable and lasting popularity: between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, his works were copied in elaborate manuscripts in almost all of Latin Europe. Godfrey was a herald of the new political ideas the Hohenstaufen developed after the years of defeat against the papacy and the Italian communes, but also a universal chronicler whose interests reached far beyond the political issues of his day. Bringing together a group of specialists on manuscripts and historical writing in late medieval England, Spain, Italy, Germany, Bohemia and Poland, this volume demonstrates how Godfrey's works were understood by medieval readers"-- ER -