One of the most prolific scholars of his time, John Capgrave (1393-1464) was the author of forty-one historical and theological texts. Today, only twelve survive, and only seven are in English. This work covers the history of the world from the creation of Adam to the year 1417. Beginn...
chronicle - a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" account, history, story history - the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human ...
sHistoria regum Britanniae(History of the Kings of Britain),Andrew of Wyntoun’sOrygynale Cronykil,andRaphael Holinshed’sChronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande.The word is from the Middle Englishcronicle,which is thought to have been ultimately derived from the Greekchrónos,“time.”...
Chronicle play, drama with a theme from history consisting usually of loosely connected episodes chronologically arranged. Plays of this type typically lay emphasis on the public welfare by pointing to the past as a lesson for the present, and the genre
A tous nobles is a fifteenth-century genealogical chronicle of the kings of France which survives in more than 60 copies and 21 textual versions, proving i... MA Norbye - 《Journal of Medieval History》 被引量: 1发表: 2007年 :The Kings of the Slavs: The Image of a Ruler in the Latin...
William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the kings of England : from the earliest period to the reign of King Stephen With notes and illus. by J. A. Giles (Bohn's antiquarian library) AMS Press, [1968] William, of Malmesbury, ca...
The story of King Lear and his three daughters is an old tale, well known in England for centuries before Shakespeare wrote the definitive play on the subject. The first English account of Lear can be found in the History of the Kings of Britain, written by Geoffrey Monmouth in 1135. Monm...
Until the 13th century, monasteries were the centers of chronicle writing. Chronicles were generally in Latin;The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle,written in Old English, was an exception. As national states emerged, chronicles devoted to the history of a single country and written in that country’s languag...
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Macphail (Glasgow, 1887-St.Andrews, 1974) MB ChB (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery), the Anglo-Serbian Children's Hospital in Belgrade was established after World War I, and the English-Yugoslav Children's Hospital for Treatment of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis was founded in Sremska Kamenica in ...