Infinite Mirrors - Appendices

Abstract

<a><p>Zsuzsanna Papp Reed, <i>Matthew Paris on the Mongol Invasion in Europe</i>, CELAMA 38 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2022)</p><p>This is a novel, interdisciplinary study of the Mongol military campaign in Eastern Europe (1241-1242) — the North, as thirteenth-century Europeans saw the region — through the lens of contemporary English chronicler, Matthew Paris of St Albans Monastery. Tracing the journey of his sources, Papp Reed explores thirteenth-century information networks against the backdrop of the struggle between Emperor Frederick II and Pope Innocent IV. Parallel to the history of information, the subject of the study is the <i>Chronica majora</i> and its afterlife, Matthew’s chronicle world where the sometimes fictitious (and often very real) episodes of the Mongol story unfold. Tracing major landmarks in the meta-history of the <i>Chronica majora</i>, the author wishes to emancipate Matthew Paris as a historian — one in the series of a multitude of others who continue to write and rewrite the history of the Mongol invasion across centuries of historiography. The volume is a handy companion both to scholars of English historiography and those who want to read critically the oft-cited primary sources of the history of the Mongol military operations in Europe.</p> <p><b>Zsuzsanna Papp Reed</b> is a literary historian and medievalist, currently teaching at the Central European University, Vienna.</p></a><a>Appendix 2: Mongol-related content in the <i>Chronica majora</i></a><br><div><a></a><a>Appendix 3: Comparative table of various descriptions of Mongols in Matthew Paris’s texts</a><div><a><br></a></div></div>