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They are chronicles or annals, which list at least one notable event per year under the name of a ruling official. The oldest eponym chronicle is the one compiled at Mari in the 18th century BC, covering the years before and during the reign of Shamshi-Adad I .
The chronicle is potentially the only original contemporary authority for the years 813–842, the other being (depending on its dating) the Scriptor Incertus. Because of this fact, it is indispensable. As usually in the case of such medieval chronicles, the only part to be taken seriously is the account of more or less contemporary events.
A dead chronicle is one where the author assembles a list of events up to the time of their writing, but does not record further events as they occur. A live chronicle is where one or more authors add to a chronicle in a regular fashion, recording contemporary events shortly after they occur.
The Dynastic Chronicle, "Chronicle 18" in Grayson's Assyrian and Babylonian Chronicles [2] or the "Babylonian Royal Chronicle" in Glassner’s Mesopotamian Chronicles, [3] is a fragmentary ancient Mesopotamian text extant in at least four known copies.
The reconstructed text of the Trinity Chronicle is considered by some scholars to be one of the six main copies that are of greatest importance for textual criticism of the Primary Chronicle (PVL), 'which aims to reconstruct the original [text] by comparing extant witnesses.' [5] Because the original is lost and its text can only be indirectly ...
In contrast to Jacoby's ideas, a 2012 study maintains that the style of the Chronicle's entries suggests that the ultimate source of the information in the Parian Chronicle was the archives of the city of Athens. [7] Authors Rodger Young and Andrew Steinmann base their views on three key inferences from the available evidence. 1) The naming of ...
Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. 2005. 268 pp. Ford, Lacy K., ed. A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction. Blackwell, 2005. 518 pp. Franklin, John Hope. Reconstruction after the Civil War (1961), University of Chicago Press, 280 pp. ISBN 0-226-26079-8. Explores the brevity of the North's military occupation of ...
In a 2010 review of Plokhy's book, which he generally praised, [20] Halperin acknowledged using the reconstruction 'without much precision' for dating the translatio of the "Rus' land" concept, which he hadn't yet 'revised following the reclassification of the Trinity Chronicle as a invalid source because it is a reconstruction, not a "text ...