Abstract
Medievalists frequently approach Johannes Marignola's Chronicle of Bohemia (Cronica Boemorum) from two distinct angles, as a traveloque and as a historiographical work, and tend to separate these two aspects. This study focuses on an analysis of the functions of the travelogue elements in the chronicle as a whole.
Marignola associates the historical narrative of the first and second ages of the world history with reflections on his own journey to the East. However, the stylized narrator is in evidence throughout the chronicle, both as a historian and as a witness.
With the aid of Old Testament and Gospel quotations, Marignola witnesses the reality of an earthly paradise in the East and the miracle at the court of Charles IV, connecting the narrative of Czech and of world history.