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Andreas FischerDie Fredegar-Chronik.Komposition und KontextualisierungThe Fredegar-Chronicle is the only extant Frankish historiographical work from the seventh century. As a world chronicle, it covers the history from Adam to ä in 659/660, offering a narrative that comprises the history of Frankland and several realms and empires beyond the Merovingian kingdoms in a vast geographical horizon. The project wants to shed light on the relation between the text&rsqou;s structure and its contemporary context including Fredegar&rsqou;s addressees in order to understand what exactly shaped the chronicle&rsqou;s perspective on the past. The analysis concentrates on motifs of social cohesion in the narrative such as the chronicler&rsqou;s ethnic view and understanding of the world and his assessment of the behavior of agents in history, i.e. the kings and noblemen in Merovingian France and elsewhere. These motifs and protagonists serve as orientation marks in a historical development that both ends and culminates in Fredegar&rsqou;s own times. |
  → Christian communities and their media,M. Pollheimer → Semantics and narratives of ethnicity, C. Grifoni → Regional and ethnic identities in Roman and post-imperial Europe, K. Winckler → Regional and ethnic identities in Roman and post-imperial Europe, R. Steinacher → Identity, material objects and cultural transfer, F. Conselvan → Columbanus and the Politics of Exile, A. O'Hara → Die Fredegar-Chronik, A. Fischer → The Bible as a Repository of Identities in Early Medieval Historiography, P. Dörler → Imperial Carolingian identity in ninth-century Italy, C. Gantner → Bible Manuscripts as Modes of Perception, M. Tischler → State, Taxation and Power in in Late Roman West A.D. 300-700, P. Tedesco → Problem of the Ethnic Identity in Bohemia during the rule of Premyslid, D. Kalhous → Hunting and elite cohesion, H. Barak → Chroniclers, Crusaders, and the Last Pagans of Europe, S. Donecker
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