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Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle
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The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle (EMC) is a specialized encyclopedia on medieval chronicles and annals, edited by Graeme Dunphy and published in Leiden by Brill. It is therefore both a literary lexicon and a reference work on historiography. Description Chronicles and annals are history books written during the Middle Ages. They are important to historians mainly as witnesses to the history they record, they are important to literary scholars because of their internal textual interest, and they are important to scholars of cultural history for their perspectives on the authors’ own place in his or her construct of history. When they are illustrated, they are also of interest to art historians. "Chronicle Studies" as an interdisciplinary field has been largely established through the Medieval Chronicle Society. The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle was first initiated in the context of this society. The EMC contains around 2500 usually quite short articles on individual authors or on anonymous works. A majority of these are from Western Christendom, but there are also entries on Slavic, Byzantine, Syriac, Islamic and Jewish chronicles. These give information on the date, language, form and manuscript tradition, and discuss issues which have been highlighted in recent scholarship. There are also about 60 longer "thematic" articles on particular aspects of chronicles. The two-volume paper edition appeared in 2010 and runs to around 1830 pages, with about 60 black-and-white full-page illustrtions. About 450 scholars collaborated in writing it. An electronic edition with additional articles is due to appear in 2012. 
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