Prologues as <i>Locus Auctoris</i> in Historical Narratives: An Overview from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Christian Bratu
This essay retraces the emergence and rise of prologues as loci auctoris in historical texts from Antiquity to Middle Ages. I argue that chroniclers historians have always perceived used prologue Locus Auctoris – a place where they could write about their methods, opinions, preferences and, last but not least, themselves.
Mediävistik