Századok – 2006

TANULMÁNYOK - Gerics József-Ladányi Erzsébet: 11. századi történeti események középkori történetírásunkban 349

360 GERICS JÓZSEF - LADÁNYI ERZSÉBET seems to prove that he was a contemporary. Some of his errors remind us of those committed by another contemporary, Lambert of Hersfeld. Concerning the reign of Solomon (1063-1074) the authors distinguish between two different authors: one, whose narrative is based on idoneitas (demanding the king's aptness to rule), seems to have worked at the turn of the 11th

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centuries, while the other, who emphasised legitimitás (the impossibility to dethrone an anointed king), probably wrote in the late 1160s. Among the sources of the chronicle narratives one can mention the peace charter which presumably ended the Hungarian-German wars of the 1050s; its corroboratio seems to have been maintained by the Annales Altahenses, whereas its sanctio probably survived in the Hungarian chronicle. As a possible model of the charter some texts of the Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum can be considered. The chronicle narrative itself seems to have served as a model of the greater legend of Saint Stephen (around 1080), of the legends of Saint Gerard (after 1140) as well as the basic text of the legends of Saint Ladislas (turn of the 12th

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centuries). These also contain interpretations of different parts of the chronicle.