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Thumser, Antje: Dichterische Freiheit? Die Gründung Münchens in der ‚Bayerischen Chronik‘ des Ulrich Fuetrer, in Kipf, Johannes Klaus and Schwarz, Jörg (Eds.): Stadtgeschichte(n): Stadt und Kultur in Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2024 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 21), p. 203–224. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1258.c19232

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Antje Thumser

Dichterische Freiheit?

Die Gründung Münchens in der ‚Bayerischen Chronik‘ des Ulrich Fuetrer

Abstract  Around 1481, the coat-of-arms painter and novelist Ulrich Fuetrer wrote a ‘Bavarian Chronicle’ on behalf of Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich, in which he describes the founding of the city of Munich in a way that deviates strikingly from usual historiographies. The article asks how the author, who was strongly suspected of fabulism, might have arrived at his unusual representation and whether he might have used poetic licence in doing so. Using hitherto largely unknown sources, it can be shown that Fuetrer did indeed draw on knowledge that was circulating or written down at the time, which he transformed into a coherent representation, entirely in the spirit of his patrons and recipients at the Munich court.

Keywords Bavaria; Munich; historiography; genealogy