Mark Chinca and Christopher Young have been awarded funding of c. 拢950K by the AHRC to produce, with J眉rgen Wolf and J眉rg Fleischer (both of Marburg), the first ever full edition of the twelfth-century听Kaiserchronik. Over five years, they will edit not just the original, twelfth-century version, but also the two major reworkings of it that were made around 1200 and 1250 鈥� testimony to the work鈥檚 continuing relevance for a medieval readership. The three versions will be printed side by side, and in order to make the German text accessible to scholars worldwide, it will be accompanied by an English translation, plus full introduction and commentary. As well as the scholarly edition in three volumes, totalling around 1800 pages, the project will produce an inexpensive single-volume edition for student use. Both will appear with de Gruyter听in Berlin. The project is also collaborating with the University Library Heidelberg to digitize all the manuscripts and place them on open access as a virtual Kaiserchronik听library.听This resource, on the model of others already developed by the UB Heidelberg, such as the Virtuelle Klosterbibliothek Lorsch听(http://www.bibliotheca-laureshamensis-digital.de) and the digital edition of Thomasin听von Zerklaere听(http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/wgd/),听will guarantee sustained international exposure for the听Kaiserchronik听and the project.
As well as a number of journal issues, conferences, and impact initiatives aimed at schools and the broader public, the project will offer opportunities for graduate training for PhD students of medieval German and history across the UK. Master classes in paleography will be conducted by Wolf, one of Germany鈥檚 leading experts who leads the Handschriftencensus听(http://www.handschriftencensus.de),听and students will be given bursaries to help complete the transcription phase of the project under his supervision.
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Charlemagne event at German Historical Institute London, 14 February 2017
A workshop and reading on the theme of the 鈥淢ythification of Charlemagne鈥� in medieval Europe. It was听held at the German Historical Institute London on the afternoon and evening of 14 February 2017; speakers included听Knut G枚rich (Munich), Alheydis Plassmann (Bonn), Thomas Foerster (海角社区), Anne Latowsky (South Florida). In the evening, Mark Chinca 听and Christopher Young gave a reading of the Charlemagne episode in the Kaiserchronik, in the new English translation they are preparing to accompany the new critical edition. Full details are in the attached programme.
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Dr Mark Chinca,听Prof. Christopher Young
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