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ID: 901000945
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000945
Record Type: Literature

Weltchronik (history, von Ems, 1250s)

Note: Rudolf von Ems' last work, dedicated to King Conrad IV. It narrates, as an addition to the Bible, the Historia scholastica of Petrus Comestor and the Pantheon of Godfrey of Viterbo, the history of the world from the creation up to the death of King Solomon, with the added motive of legitimizing the rule of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.

Display Date: 1250s

Names:
Weltchronik (history, von Ems, 1250s) (preferred,German-P,D,P)
Weltchronik (history, von Ems, 1250s) (English-P,D,P)
World Chronicle (history, von Ems, 1250s) (t,English,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:
Literature and Performing Arts (P)
....<Named written and performed works> (P)
........<Literary works: History, Biographies> (P)
............Weltchronik (history, von Ems, 1250s) (I)
Other Relationships:
author is .... Ems, Rudolf von (Austrian knight and chronicler, 1200-1254)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
dedicatee is .... Conrad IV, King of Germany (German king, 1228-1254)
.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)
role/characteristic is .... history (literary genre)
.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Weltchronik (history, von Ems, 1250s)
................J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
World Chronicle (history, von Ems, 1250s)
................J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Iconography Record Sources:
................ J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)

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