The ''Chronicon complutense sive alcobacense'' ("Complutensian Chronicle, that is,
rom a manuscript
Rom, or ROM may refer to:
Biomechanics and medicine
* Risk of mortality, a medical classification to estimate the likelihood of death for a patient
* Rupture of membranes, a term used during pregnancy to describe a rupture of the amniotic sac
* R ...
of
Alcalá de Henares
Alcalá de Henares () is a Spanish city in the Community of Madrid. Straddling the Henares River, it is located to the northeast of the centre of Madrid. , it has a population of 193,751, making it the region's third-most populated Municipalities ...
ncient Complutum) is a short
medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. Latin functioned ...
history, in the form of
annals
Annals ( la, annāles, from , "year") are a concise historical record in which events are arranged chronologically, year by year, although the term is also used loosely for any historical record.
Scope
The nature of the distinction between ann ...
, of events in
Galicia and
Portugal
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up to the death of
Ferdinand I "the Great", whom the anonymous chronicler lauds as an "exceedingly strong emperor" (''imperator fortissimus''), in 1065. It is the earliest "''
chronicon In historiography, a ''chronicon'' is a type of chronicle or annals. Examples are:
* ''Chronicon'' (Eusebius)
* ''Chronicon'' (Jerome)
*'' Chronicon Abbatiae de Evesham''
*''Chronicon Burgense''
*'' Chronicon Ambrosianum''
*'' Chronicon Compostellan ...
''" dealing with Galaico-Portuguese events. The first edition (''editio princeps'') was published by
Enrique Flórez
Enrique or Henrique Flórez de Setién y Huidobro (July 21, 1702August 20, 1773) was a Spanish historian.
Biography
Flórez was born in Villadiego. At 15 years old, he entered the order of St Augustine. He subsequently became professor of theol ...
in 1767. A more recent edition, incorporating the recension known as the ''Chronicon conimbrigense'', was published under the title ''Annales Portugalenses veteres'' (APV, "old Portuguese annals") by Pierre David.
Editions
*Enrique Flórez, ed. ''España Sagrada'', XXIII, 2nd ed. (Madrid: 1799)
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*Pierre David, ed. "Annales Portugalenses Veteres", ''Revista Portuguesa de Historia'' 3 (1945): 81–128.
References
*Porter Conerly (1993). "Cronicones". In Germán Bleiberg. ''Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula''. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 469–70.
*J. Eduardo López Pereira (1978). "El Elemento godo en los «Annales Portugalenses Veteres»: un problema de crítica textual y de fuentes", ''Revista Portuguesa de Historia'' 16: 223–26.
Iberian chronicles
13th-century Latin books