ABSTRACT
This chapter presents profane events and their metahistorical positioning as adjacent to each other, like in an allegorical narrative where the plot and its moral explanation go hand in hand. For a typical medieval historian, the whole Bible was identified with the sacred history of the world and of mankind. The typological way of thinking reached beyond the bounds of the Bible, and comparisons emerged between the heroes of the sacred story and other mythological and biblical characters. Friedrich Ohly has suggested that typologies with one half located outside the Bible be called half-biblical typologies. Examples include the typological likening of Orpheus or Socrates with Christ, as well as the comparison between Constantine the Great and King Solomon. What is involved is the secularization of the typology, its application to material supplied by history rather than sacred events. The chronicler Henry thinks and makes his historical generalizations in the same kind of half-biblical typologies.
