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During the last decade of the twentieth century, the late professor Kazimierz Liman worked on the application of classic literary communication model in the research on the mediaeval chronicles. The result was a paper delivered at the conference The Mediaeval Chronicle which took place in 1996 in Utrecht, which has never been published as a whole. We have decided to include it in the present volume not only to honour the author, but also because we are convinced of its great contribution to the research on Latin mediaeval literature.