Renesansowe modernizacje kroniki uniwersalnej

The article concerns selected Renaissance initiatives tomodernise the medieval universal chronicle in terms of genre. Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus (Enneades sive Rhapsodia historiarum […], 1498, 1504) proposed a humanistic version that did away with temporal divisions according to the world’s ages and the four monarchies in favour of a secular chronological system of enneads (sets of nine). Johannes Nauclerus, amore conservative scholar (Memorabilium omnis aetatis […], 1516), came up with a compromise solution: he maintained the periodical canon but added an “overlay” in the form of 130 Generations. Johannes Carion (Chronica, 1533) adapted the medieval model to the needs of Protestantism by reinterpreting the concept of the four monarchies. Finally, Marcin Bielski (Kronika wszytkiego świata, 1551) proposed a radical reconfiguration, an encyclopaedic collection of relatively independent parts with a selective and autonomous relationship to its predecessors.