Between Authorship and Anonymity: The Case of the Venetian Chronicles

Șerban V. Marin

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Between Authorship and Anonymity: The Case of the Venetian Chronicles

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Pages:: 149–181

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004428560_008

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This paper is based on a methodological approach to the question of authorship of chronicles, as applied to the study of the Venetian chronicles.

There are over two thousand Venetian manuscripts that included chronicles, and they were written over a long period between the eleventh and the eighteenth centuries. Such manuscripts may be found not only in Italy, but also in many other parts of the world. The authors of some have been identified on the basis of solid arguments. For others, however, the arguments are far from convincing.

My paper is an attempt to analyze all those instances of chronicles the authorship of which has been wrongly established, and to explain how that happened.

I will argue that in such cases the attribution to a particular author is wrong. In my view the default assumption should be the anonymity of chronicles. One can accept a named author only when there are no doubts about it.

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The Medieval Chronicle 13

Series: The Medieval Chronicle, Volume: 13

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004428560

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 14 Apr 2020

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- History
  - Medieval History
- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Literary Theory

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