Recent research in the field of Middle High German literature has characterised the 'Chronicle of the Emperors', dating from the midst of the 12th century, as a very interesting experiment in narrating historical events. The volume at hand draws on these insights and at the same time rereads the text in a new context by looking at it from different European and Non-European disciplines. Current reflections on the genre status of the 'Chronicle of the Emperors', on the presence and the functionalisation of Rome within the text and on the treatment of spatio-temporal phenomena are linked with observations on the perception of dominance in Latin historiography of the 12th and in a Persian epic of the 14th century. Through a structural and thematic comparison with a contemporary work from Sanscrit literature and Japanese narratives about the court's past, the Middle High German text as well as the research dealing with it appear in a new light.