Writing History in Medieval European Towns
ARTICLES Writing History in Medieval European Towns Thirteenth-Century England Coming soon 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 paper focuses on three towns where we first see this phenomenon witnessed: London (Arnold fitz Thedmar), Cologne (Gottfried Hagen) and Genoa (Caffaro/Jacopo Doria). This paper argues that historical writing in...