Funkce cestopisných prvků v kronice Johanna Marignoly

• Authors: Vojtěch Bažant

Title variants

EN

The function of travelogue elements in Johannes Marignola’s Chronicle

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Medievalists frequently approach Johannes Marignola’s Chronicle of Bohemia (Cronica Boemorum) from two distinct angles, as a travelogue and as a historiographical work, and tend to separate these two aspects.This study focuses on an analysis of the functions of the travelogue elements in the chronicle as a whole. Marignola associates the historical narrative of the first and second ages of the world with reflections on his own journey to the East. However, the stylized narrator is in evidence throughout the chronicle, both as a historian and as a witness. With the aid of Old Testament and Gospel quotations, Marignola witnesses the reality of an earthly paradise in the East and the miracle at the court of Charles IV, connecting the narrative of Czech and of world history.

Keywords

CS

Johannes Marignola; historiografie; české dějiny; cestopis; očité svědectví; orientalismus

EN

Johannes Marignola; historiography; Czech history; travelogue; eyewitness account; orientalism

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 3-23
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Vojtěch Bažant

• Česká literatura, redakce, Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 3/1420, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic