Time and Space in Late-Medieval Dynastic Chronicles: With a Focus on Examples from Czech-Language Literature

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<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110610963-015" target="_blank" >10.1515/9783110610963-015</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Time and Space in Late-Medieval Dynastic Chronicles: With a Focus on Examples from Czech-Language Literature

Original language description

The study focuses attention on the way in which time and space are perceived in medieval Czech popular narratives. It specifically examines the Chronicle of Stilfrid, Chronicle of Bruncvik, and the Chronicle of Melusine. In the second part of the essay, the author focuses more attention on the functions of personifying real geographic places in debate poems of Hussite era. Late-medieval dynastic chronicles introduced fundamental innovations to conceptualization of time and space. They are clearly visible in the perception of time, which began to demonstrate a higher level of mimesis. Narrators incorporated the chronicle keeper&apos;s perception of time and provided thorough information about the exact timing of events. The depicted time also begins to surpass the lifetime of one hero. Dynastic time appears in which generations succeed each other. Debate poems of the Hussite era provide evidence that the personification of specific places was one of the most common forms of literary expression in the fifteenth century. The authors of these debate poems certainly resorted to this genre because they could use it to mask an otherwise political message behind occasional and entertaining literature. They depicted religious and political strife as a quarrel between cities personified as both women and men; the authors&apos; own political beliefs were cloaked in a simple allegory about divine judgment.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Travel, Time, And Space in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time

ISBN

978-3-11-059503-1

Number of pages of the result

18

Pages from-to

446-463

Number of pages of the book

704

Publisher name

Walter de Gruyter

Place of publication

Boston/Berlin

UT code for WoS chapter

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