VOLUME 17
Past and Present in Medieval Chronicles
Edited by Mari Isoaho
Published in 2015
by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies P.O. Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki Finland
ISSN 1796-2986
ISBN 978-951-51-0870-8
© Editor & Contributors 2015
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COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences Editors-in-Chief
Sari Kivistö, Johanna Sumiala Managing Editor
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Cover photo: Laurentian Chronicle, parchment codex dated to 1377. The page describes the period from 6367 to 6370 AM (859-862 AD) of the Primary Chronicle, explaining how the Varyags, known as the Rus’, came to rule from beyond the sea.
Past and Present in Medieval Chronicles
Edited by Mari Isoaho
Contents
Introduction
Mari Isoaho
Seizing History: Christianising the Past in Late Antique Historiography
Maijastina Kahlos Past and Present in Mid-Byzantine Chronicles: Change in Narrative Technique and
the Transmission of Knowledge Staffan Wahlgren
The Last Emperor in the Primary Chronicle of Kiev
Mari Isoaho The Future in the Past: Predictions in the Old Rus’ Chronicles
Aleksandr G. Bobrov
What Events Were Reported by the Old Rus’ Chroniclers?
Timofey V. Guimon
The Past in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla Sverre Bagge
Diarium Vadstenense: A Late Medieval Memorial Book and Political Chronicle Claes Gejrot
Crime and its Punishment: Alfonso Ceccarelli’s False Chronicles Sari Kivistö
From Public to Private: A Curious Chronicle from Nineteenth-century Finland Anna Kuismin
List of Contributors
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Mari Isoaho (ed.)
Past and Present in Medieval Chronicles
Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 17.
Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.
