Medieval Chronicle Society#Projects
The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle ( EMC ) is an encyclopedia, specializes in late antique and medieval chronicles and annals; it was edited by Graeme Dunphy and will be routed from Brill Publishers in Leiden. Thus it is both a literary lexicon, as well as a reference work about historiography.
Description
Both chronicles and annals are historical works that were written in antiquity and the Middle Ages. They are important as witnesses for the historical sections, which they hold for historians in the first place; for literary scholars they are relevant from a text-immanent reasons and for cultural historians they are interesting because of their perspective on the localization of the author in his own construction of history. Illustrated specimens are also of interest to art historians. The Chronicle research as an interdisciplinary field has been due primarily to the Medieval Chronicle Society. The cornerstone of the EMC was placed in the context of that society.
The EMC includes about 2500 usually quite short articles on individual authors or anonymous works. Most of these are from the western Christian influenced world, but there are also articles on Slavic, Byzantine, Syrian, Islamic and Jewish chronicles. These contain information on dating, language, form, and manuscript tradition. In addition, particularly relevant current issues in research are discussed. Furthermore, there are 60 long " thematic" articles on specific individual aspects of chronicles.
The two-volume work was published in 2010 and comprises about 1830 pages. Approximately 450 scientists have worked out together. An electronic version with additional articles since 2012 is online.