Writing Civic History in London, Cologne and Genoa
ARTICLES Writing Civic History in London, Cologne and Genoa Thirteenth-Century England January 2021 In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries we find the beginnings of something new in European historiography, as men holding office in urban administrations began to write chronicles. This article, published in Thirteenth-Century England XVII focuses on three cities where we first see this phenomenon witnessed: London (Arnold fitz Thedmar), Cologne (Gottfried Hagen) and Genoa (Caffaro/Jacopo Doria)....