Past and Present in Medieval
Chronicles
Edited by Mari Isoaho
VOLUME 17
Published in 2015
by Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
P.O. Box 4 (Fabianinkatu 24)
FI-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
ISSN 1796 -2986
ISBN 978 - 951-51- 0870 -8
© Editor & Contributors 2015
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COLLeGIUM: Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Sari Kivistö, Johanna Sumiala
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Cover photo: Laurentian Chronicle, parchment codex dated to 1377. The page describes the period from 6367
to 6370 AM (859-862 AD) of the Primary Chronicle, explaining how the Varyags, known as the Rus’, came to
rule from beyond the sea.
Past and Present in Medieval Chronicles
Edited by Mari Isoaho
Contents
Introduction
Mari Isoaho
1
Seizing History: Christianising the Past in Late Antique Historiography
Maijastina Kahlos
Past and Present in Mid-Byzantine Chronicles: Change in Narrative Technique and
the Transmission of Knowledge
Staffan Wahlgren
34
The Last Emperor in the Primary Chronicle of Kiev
Mari Isoaho
43
The Future in the Past: Predictions in the Old Rus’ Chronicles
Aleksandr G. Bobrov
82
What Events Were Reported by the Old Rus’ Chroniclers?
Timofey V. Guimon
92
11
The Past in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla
Sverre Bagge
118
Diarium Vadstenense: A Late Medieval Memorial Book and Political Chronicle
Claes Gejrot
131
Crime and its Punishment: Alfonso Ceccarelli’s False Chronicles
Sari Kivistö
148
From Public to Private: A Curious Chronicle from Nineteenth-century Finland
Anna Kuismin
176
List of Contributors
194
Mari Isoaho (ed.)
Past and Present in Medieval Chronicles
Studies across Disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences 17.
Helsinki: Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies.