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The Author: The Chronicler of the Royal Chancellery The Author: The Chronicler of the Royal Chancellery
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The Historicization of Legendary Tales The Historicization of Legendary Tales
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Presenting Historical Narration: The Recontextualization of the Past Presenting Historical Narration: The Recontextualization of the Past
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3 Bernat Desclot: The Historian and His Chronicle
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Published:April 2012
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This chapter examines the chronicle of the royal chancellor Bernat Desclot. Desclot's Crònica (Chronicle), officially titled Llibre del rey en Pere de Aragó e dels seus antecessors passats (Book of King Peter of Aragon and of His Ancestors), was written from 1283 to 1288, after the great Catalan victory in Sicily in 1282. He succeeded as a historian who carefully collates his information with the available documentation. The fictional story of Guillem Ramon's exile to the Aragonese court and his contribution to the marriage revealed the domination of the Catalan nobility over the Aragonese. Desclot concluded his account in the simple manner that characterizes the whole chronicle, which gives him the natural authority demanded of all historians. His account succeeded as the work of a chronicler-historian who writes dispassionately of the Catalan Mediterranean expansion and military heroic deeds in Sicily.
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