AUTHORING THE PAST

Authoring the Past surveys medieval Catalan historiography, shedding light on the emergence and evolution of historical writing and autobiography in the Middle Ages, on questions of authority and authorship, and on the links between history and politics during the period. Jaume Aurell examines texts from the late twelfth to the late fourteenth centuryincluding the Latin Gesta comitum Barcinon ensium and four texts in medieval Catalan: James Is Llibre dels fets, the Crònica of Bernat Desclot, the Crònica of Ramon Muntaner, and the Cr...[Read more]