Chronicle of Guillaume de Nangis (continuation)
Overview
Guillaume de Nangis (d. 1300) was a monk of Saint-Denis whose Latin chronicle of the kings of France was continued by later anonymous hands into the fourteenth century; this continuation tradition runs in close parallel to, but is textually distinct from, the vernacular Grandes Chroniques de France that first records the 1323 condemnation of the unnamed "monk of Morigny" (see Grandes Chroniques de France, entry for 1323).
Role in the Historiography of Erasure
Fanger identifies the Nangis continuation's retelling of the 1323 notice as a further compression of the original account — not yet the outright misattribution that would follow in the sixteenth century (see A 16th-century Parisian antiquarian history inverts the record), but an early step in the same direction: less specific, less careful about the distinction between John's own book and the ars notoria tradition it drew on (Rewriting Magic, p.3, p.20). This portal has not independently read the Nangis continuation's own Latin text; its content here is described only as Fanger characterizes it.
Literature
- Fanger, Claire. Rewriting Magic. Penn State University Press, 2015, p.3, p.20.
Sources
- Fanger, Claire, Rewriting Magic: An Exegesis of the Visionary Autobiography of a Fourteenth-Century French Monk (2015), p.3, 20 — Nangis continuation as second link in the erasure chain.
Literature
- Fanger, Claire. Rewriting Magic. Penn State University Press, 2015.