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The significance of chronology in the Chronica of Iohannes Biclarensis

Authors

ŠIMORDOVÁ Silvie

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Acta Antiqua Academiae scientiarum Hungaricae
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1556/068.2014.54.4.8
Field History
Keywords visigoths; chronicles; Iohannes Biclarensis; chronology
Description The first part of the article informs shortly about the literary genre of chronica in the late Antiquity and it’s basic characteristics. Special attention is payed to the chronological aspects in these works. The second part presents the author Iohannes Biclarensis. He lived in the 6th and 7th century in Visigothic kingdom on Pyrenean Peninsula and his only surviving work, the Chronica, is one-of-a-kind source for the turbulent reigns of Leovigildus and Reccaredus in the end of 6th century A.D. The third part is focused on the significance of chronology in this opus, an analysis of all the dating formulas he uses is presented and in conclusion is demonstrated on some example the shift in Iohannes’s perspective through the chronicle.
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