 First arrival of Gypsies outside Bern, described as getoufte heiden "baptized heathens" (p. 749) | |
| Author | Diebold Schilling the Elder |
|---|---|
| Original title | Spiezer Chronik |
| Genre | Chronicle |
Publication date | 1480s |
Spiezer Schilling or Spiezer Chronik is a chronicle by Diebold Schilling the Elder of Bern (1480s), created after the Berner Schilling by the same author. [1]
Ronald Barnabas Schill is a former German judge, the founder of the German political parties Party for a Rule of Law Offensive and Pro DM/Schill. He served as the Senator of the Interior and Second Mayor in the government of Hamburg from 2001 to 2003.
George Kedrenos, Cedrenus or Cedrinos was a Byzantine Greek historian. In the 1050s he compiled Synopsis historion, which spanned the time from the biblical account of creation to his own day. Kedrenos is one of the few sources that discuss Khazar polities in existence after the sack of Atil in 969.
Several illustrated chronicles were created in the Old Swiss Confederacy in the 15th and 16th centuries. They were luxurious illuminated manuscripts produced for the urban elite of Bern and Lucerne, and their copious detailed illustrations allow a unique insight into the politics and daily life of late medieval Switzerland on the eve of the Reformation. The most important of these chronicles are the works of the two Diebold Schillings, their luxurious execution, as well as their content reflecting the growing confidence and self-esteem of the leaders of the confederacy after their spectacular successes in the Burgundian Wars.
Diebold Schilling the Elder was the author of several of the Swiss illustrated chronicles, the Berner Schilling of 1483, the Zürcher Schilling of 1484, and the Spiezer Schilling (1480s).
Diebold Schilling the Younger was the author of the "Luzerner Schilling", one of the Swiss illustrated chronicles, which he presented to the city council of Lucerne on 15 January 1513. He was the nephew of Diebold Schilling the Elder of Bern. The younger Diebold was a somewhat scandalous figure, not unlike his father Hans, brother to the elder Diebold, an adventurer who had sought his fortune at the court of Matthias Corvinus, and returned destitute in 1488. Diebold was a secretary in Lucerne from 1479, and received the priesthood in 1481. His behaviour was so unpriestly, however, that the city council locked him into the tower in 1487, where he remained imprisoned for two years before he was released on parole of exhibiting more appropriate behaviour in the future. After his release he was soon back to his old ways, and after he had killed a man after a tavern brawl, he was fined and obliged to read a mass for his victim every year. Diebold was fiercely anti-French, and he accused the Bernese in particular, as well as his fellow chronicler Petermann Etterlin because of their friendly attitude towards France. Diebold's own sympathies lay with the German emperor Maximilian I, who personally invited him to the Reichstag in Konstanz in 1507. As an author, Diebold's most important contribution to the historiography of his times is his account of the years 1507–1509, the events of which he tells in his own words as an eye-witness.
The Luzerner Schilling is an illuminated manuscript of 1513, containing the chronicle of the history of the Swiss Confederation written by Diebold Schilling the Younger of Lucerne.
The Berner Schilling is a chronicle of Diebold Schilling the Elder of Bern (1480s), covering the history of the Old Swiss Confederacy up to the Burgundian Wars.
Zürcher Schilling is the latest chronicle of Diebold Schilling the Elder of Bern (1484), treating the Burgundian Wars. It is kept in the central library in Zürich.
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