Funkce cestopisných prvků v kronice Johanna Marignoly
The function of travelogue elements in Johannes Marignola’s Chronicle
Author(s): Vojtěch BažantSubject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Cultural history, Studies of Literature, Middle Ages, Czech Literature, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro českou literaturu
Keywords: Johannes Marignola ; historiography ; Czech history ; travelogue ; eyewitness account ; orientalism
Summary/Abstract: Medievalists frequently approach Johannes Marignola’s Chronicle of Bohemia (Cronica Boemorum) from two distinct angles, as a travelogue and as a historiographical work, and tend to separate these two aspects.This study focuses on an analysis of the functions of the travelogue elements in the chronicle as a whole. Marignola associates the historical narrative of the first and second ages of the world with reflections on his own journey to the East. However, the stylized narrator is in evidence throughout the chronicle, both as a historian and as a witness. With the aid of Old Testament and Gospel quotations, Marignola witnesses the reality of an earthly paradise in the East and the miracle at the court of Charles IV, connecting the narrative of Czech and of world history.
Journal: Česká literatura
- Issue Year: 71/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 3-23
- Page Count: 21
- Language: Czech
