Summary The volume discusses Central European and Eastern Central European historiographies of the High and Late Middle Ages. It deals with histories written in a time which brought about a profound differentiation of medieval societies in these regions. As new social classes achieved economic and political power, the demand for reassuring identifications grew more pressing. Narratives of the past were tailored specifically for distinct social groups, often using vernacular languages instead of the universal language of elite education, Latin. The volume pays attention to the interplay between languages and focuses on the strategies that individual works developed in order to balance the many alternative modes of identification. Filling a significant scholarly gap, the volume offers important insights into narratives of identification written in Latin and in the various vernaculars emerging as the new political languages of the period. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - PAVLINA RYCHTEROVÁ AND DAVID KALHOUS A Past that never was: Creating collective identities The Terms 'Polans', 'Poles', 'Poland', and their Historiographical Context in Medieval Poland and Rus' - PAWEL ZMUDZKI People, Realm, and Dynasty in the Fourteenth Century - Chronica de gestis Hungarorum - JÁNOS M. BAK Master Vincent and his Making of the Oldest History of the Lechites-Poles - JACEK BANASZKIEWICZ Narrating for Specific Communities? The Case of the Österreichische Chronik von den 95 Herrschaften - MATTHIAS MEYER How to Create a Hussite Identity? The Hussite Chronicle by Lawrence of Brezová - PAVLÍNA CERMANOVÁ The Realm and its People: Re-writing Political Identities The Hungarian-Polish Chronicle as the Polish-Hungarian Perspective on the Earliest Hungarian and Polish History - RYSZARD GRZESIK The Chronicle of the so-called Dalimil and its Concept of Czech Identity - PAVLÍNA RYCHTEROVÁ Literary Reminiscences in the Characterization of the Bohemian King Wenceslas II (1283-1305) and his Contemporaries in Ottokar from the Geul's Styrian Rhymed Chronicle - VÁCLAV BOK Slavonic and Czech Identity in the Chronicon Bohemiae by Pribík Pulkava of Radenín - VÁCLAV ZUREK AND PAVLÍNA RYCHTEROVÁ The Rhymed German Translation of the Chronicle of the So-Called Dalimil and its Strategies of Identification - VLASTIMIL BROM From Dynasty to Noble Identity: The Development of the Historical Tradition in the Chronicles of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - RIMVYDAS PETRAUSKAS Local and Regional Identities in a Dialogue Versus Lubenses: Ethnic Differences, Political Identification, and the Cohesion of Social Groups in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Silesia - PRZEMYSLAW WISZEWSKI Affective Strategies for Narrating Community: Jans (the) 'Enikel''s Fürstenbuch - CHRISTINA LUTTER Historical Memory and Local Identity: Jan Dlugosz and the Church in Cracow - PIOTR WECOWSKI The Chronicles of the Teutonic Order in Prussia in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries - MARCUS WÜST Annals, Chronicles, and Saints: Monastic Narratives in Early Austrian Historiography and their Perception by Local Elites - MARTIN HALTRICH Adam a German? The Ethnic Element in Swabian Chronicles of the Fifteenth Century - JÖRG SONNTAG Index