"Byzantine history and stories in the Frankish Chronicle of Fredegar (c. 613–662)", Francia. Forschungen zur westeuropäischen Geschichte 28 (2021), 3–22. (original) (raw)
The Frankish »Chronicle of Fredegar«, written in the midst of the dark seventh century, is a most remarkable source that stands out for the interest in the Byzantine empire it attests to in the Mediterranean world and the evidence it provides for ongoing exchanges with the same. The anonymous chronicle is preserved in 38 manuscripts, the first of which dates to around 715 . Apart from the »barbarous« Latin used and the unusual composition of the chronicle, it bears a remarkably large horizon of narratives: alongside the Frankish kingdoms it refers to Spain, Italy, central and eastern Europe, the Middle East, and most prominently: the Byzantine empire. The aim of this investigation is to collect and analyse the information contained in the chronicle that may be related to the Byzantine world and hence must have been available in seventh-century Gaul to discuss what channels of exchange may have been responsible for its transmission. The analysis of the treatment of the Byzantine world in this chronicle goes hand in hand with a study of the composition of this important piece of evidence and the western perception of Byzantium it attests. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact me if you would like to have a copy of the entire paper.
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