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标题：Gerhard Wolf/Norbert H. Ott (eds): Handbuch Chroniken des Mittelalters. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2016 (De Gruyter Reference).
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作者：Benjamin Pohl
期刊名称：Plekos: Periodicum OnLine zur Erforschung der Kommunikationsstrukturen in der Spätantike
电子版ISSN：1435-9626
出版年度：2018
卷号：20
页码：313
出版社：Institut für Klassische Philologie, Universität München
摘要：The Handbuch Chroniken des Mittelalters , co - edited by Gerhard Wolf and Nor - bert Ott and published in De Gruyter's well - established 'Reference' series, is a handbook that sets out explicitly to fill a gap in the academic book mar- ket. It is indeed the first publication of its kind to provide, to borrow Wolf's own words, a structural survey of the different genres and r egional contexts of medieval chronicle writing in Europe and parts of the Orient ('einen ü berblick über die verschiedenen Gattungen und Regionen der mittelalter- lichen Chronistik in Europa un d dem angrenzenden Orient'; 43). This it does largely successfully , thus taking pride of place alongside existing reference works and journals such as the two - volume Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chron- icle and the periodically published proceedings The Medieval Chronicle (eleven issues so far; both works published by Bril l). There can be no doubt that a major achievement of the book and its editors lies in bringing together the perspectives of nearly thirty experts in the fields of medieval historiograph- ical and literary production within a solidly produced and accessible volume (there is also an ebook version available, which certainly will prove useful and popular as a study resource for university students). Rather than discuss- ing all twenty - six chapters individually – something which, for reasons of space and scope, cou ld not be done here in such a way as to do justice to the contributors – , this review will concentrate chiefly on the book's conceptual design and structure as a whole, as well as on its contribution to scholarship in the field(s) to which it pertains.