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Dušan Zupka, Historiography and Identity, VI: Competing Narratives of the Past in Central and Eastern Europe, c.1200–c.1600, ed. Pavlína Rychterová with David Kalhous, The English Historical Review, Volume 138, Issue 592, June 2023, Pages 632–633, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead031
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The book under review is the sixth volume of the Historiography and Identity sub-series published by Brepols as part of the Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages series. Just like the previous volumes, the present one, edited by Pavlína Rychterová, brings together a collection of case-studies focused on the strategies of identification and visions of community as preserved in the local historiographical narratives of the past between c.1200 and c.1600 in ‘Eastern Central Europe’. The seventeen chapters, written by scholars from Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Germany and Lithuania, focus on selected narrative sources from Eastern Central Europe. Royal, courtly, national, urban and monastic chronicles were chosen for scrutiny, while universal histories have been purposely left out. The editor candidly admits that it was not possible to find suitable scholars to write on some important sources (Johann of Viktring, Chronicon Aulae Regiae, Peter Eschenloer) and, therefore, these works have also been left out of the volume.
