Sharon Dale is Associate Professor of Art History at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.Alison Williams Lewin is Associate Professor of History at St. Joseph's University.Duane J. Osheim is Professor of History at the University of Virginia.

• ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1.Lombard City Annals and the Social and Cultural History of Northern ItalyEdward Coleman2.History Writing in the Twelfth-Century Kingdom of SicilyGraham A. Loud3.The Genoese Civic Annals: Caffaro and His ContinuatorsJohn Dotson4.Salimbene de Adam and the Franciscan ChronicleAlison Williams Lewin5.The Villani ChroniclesPaula Clarke6.Chronicles and Civic Life in Giovanni Sercambi’s LuccaDuane J. Osheim7.Fourteenth-Century Lombard ChroniclesSharon Dale8.Venetian History and Patrician ChroniclersJohn Melville Jones9.Chronicles into Legends and Lives: Two Humanist Accounts of the Carrara Dynasty in PaduaBenjamin G. Kohl10.Challenging Chronicles: Leonardo Bruni’s History of the Florentine PeopleGary Ianziti11.From the Roman Empire to Christian Imperialism: The Work of Flavio BiondoNicoletta PellegrinoBibliographyIndex

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