Grafton's Chronicle
Author : Richard Grafton
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Richard Grafton
Publisher :
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 14,46 MB
Release : 1809
Category : Great Britain
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Author : John Capgrave
Publisher :
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852853587
The priorities of medieval chroniclers and historians were not those of the modern historian, nor was the way that they gathered, arranged and presented evidence. Yet if we understand how they approached their task, and their assumption of God's immanence in the world, much that they wrote becomes clear. Many of them were men of high intelligence whose interpretation of events sheds clear light on what happened. Christopher Given-Wilson is one of the leading authorities on medieval English historical writing. He examines how medieval writers such as Ranulf Higden and Adam Usk treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and villains. He looks at the ways in which chronicles were used during the middle ages, and at how the writing of history changed between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries.
Author : John Allen Giles
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 46,68 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Great Britain
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Author : William (of Malmesbury)
Publisher :
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 22,48 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 42,36 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0199565759
The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.
Author : Annabel Patterson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 1994-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226649115
Reading Holinshed's Chronicles is the first major study of the greatest of the Elizabethan chronicles. Holinshed's Chronicles—a massive history of England, Scotland, and Ireland—has been traditionally read as the source material for many of Shakespeare's plays or as an archaic form of history-writing. Annabel Patterson insists that the Chronicles be read in their own right as an important and inventive cultural history. Although we know it by the name of Raphael Holinshed, editor and major compiler of the 1577 edition, the Chronicles was the work of a group, a collaboration between antiquarians, clergymen, members of parliament, poets, publishers, and booksellers. Through a detailed reading, Patterson argues that the Chronicles convey rich insights into the way the Elizabethan middle class understood their society. Responding to the crisis of disunity which resulted from the Reformation, the authors of the Chronicles embodied and encouraged an ideal of justice, what we would now call liberalism, that extended beyond the writing of history into the realms of politics, law, economics, citizenship, class, and gender. Also, since the second edition of 1587 was called in by the Privy Council and revised under supervision, the work constitutes an important test case for the history of early modern censorship. An essential book for all students of Tudor history and literature, Reading Holinshed's Chronicles brings into full view a long misunderstood masterpiece of sixteenth-century English culture.
Author : Anne Savage
Publisher : Gramercy Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 34,44 MB
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780517140796
Chronicles life in England from the Roman invasion through the middle of the twelfth century.
Author : Raphael Holinshed
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Page : 896 pages
File Size : 30,23 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Henry (of Huntingdon)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 39,90 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192840752
Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and the establishment of Norman rule. His accounts of the kings who reigned during his lifetime--William II, Henry I, and Stephen--contain unique descriptions of people and events. Henry tells how promiscuity, greed, treachery, and cruelty produced a series of disasters, rebellions, and wars. Interwoven with memorable and vivid battle-scenes are anecdotes of court life, the death and murder of nobles, and the first written record of Cnut and the waves and the death of Henry I from a surfeit of lampreys. Diana Greenway's translation of her definitive Latin text has been revised for this edition.