Prologues as "Locus Auctoris" in Historical Narratives: an Overview from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

• Autores: Christian Bratu
• Localización: Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ISSN 0934-7453, Nº. 28, 2015, págs. 47-65
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay retraces the emergence and the rise of prologues as loci auctoris in historical texts from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. I argue that chroniclers and historians have always perceived and used the prologue as the Locus Auctoris – a place where they could write about their methods, their opinions, their preferences and, last but not least, about themselves