The St Albans Chronicle

Author : Thomas Walsingham
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831440
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham, 1376-1422 written by Thomas Walsingham and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chronicles to survive from medieval England. Walsingham was a monk at St Albans Abbey, a royal monastery and the premier repository of public records, and therefore well placed to observe the political machinations of this period at close hand. Moreover, he knew the monarchs and many of the nobles personally and is able to offer insights into their actions unmatched by any other authority. It is this narrative, transmitted through the popular Tudor histories of Hall, Stow and Holinshed, which provides the principle source for Shakespeare's sequence of history plays. Covering almost fifty years, the narrative provides the most authoritative account of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, from the last years of Edward III (1376-77) to the premature death of Henry V (1422). Walsingham describes the many dramas of this period in vivid detail, including the Peasants' Revolt (1381), the deposition and murder of Richard II (1399-1400), The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr (1403) and Henry V's victory at Agincourt (1415); they are brought to life here in this new translation.

Author : John Taylor
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199253463
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The St Albans Chronicle written by John Taylor and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2011-06-23 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Walsingham has been described as the last of the great medieval chroniclers, and his St Albans Chronicle is arguably the most important account of English history to be written at this time. This is the first modern edition, and it provides a facing-page English translation, substantial historical commentary, and textual notes.

Author : Thomas Walsingham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The St Albans Chronicle :. written by Thomas Walsingham and published by . This book was released on 1515 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Juliana Berners
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boke of Saint Albans written by Juliana Berners and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Given-Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719035272
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chronicles of the Revolution, 1397-1400 written by Chris Given-Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles of the Revolution covers one of the most controversial and shocking episodes in medieval English history, the 'tyranny' and deposition of Richard II and the usurpation of the throne by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, who became King Henry IV. Contemporaries were sharply divided about the rights and wrongs of both Richard and Henry, and this division is reflected in the texts which form the major part of the book. All the principal contemporary chronicles are represented in this volume, from the violently partisan Thomas Walsingham, chronicler of St Alban's Abbey who saw Richard as a tyrant and murderer, to the indignant Dieulacres chronicler, who claimed that the 'innocent king' was tricked into surrender by his perjured barons. This range of material is also prefaced by a substantial and stimulating introduction offering new insights into Richard's later years and the events which precipitated his downfall. Additionally, the documents are accompanied by expert commentary and analysis which guides readers while leaving them free to make the ultimate conclusions about these dramatic years. This book will be invaluable for medieval historians as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students of later medieval English history.

Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783270764
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deeds of the Abbots of St Albans written by James G. Clark and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2019 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Deeds of the abbots of St Albans records the history of one of the most important abbeys in England, closely linked to the royal family and home to a school of distinguished chroniclers, including Matthew Paris and Thomas Walsingham. It offers many insights into the life of the monastery, its buildings and its role as a maker of books, and covers the period from the Conquest to the mid-fifteenth century. The Deeds of the abbots of St Albans is the longest continuous chronicle of a medieval monastery in England, following its fortunes from its first foundation in the wake of the first Viking raids to its status as a proud and prosperous pillar of the church establishment more than six centuries later. More than merely a common, conventual annal, the Deeds drew contributions from the most accomplished chroniclers of the St Albans school including Matthew Paris, Thomas Walsingham and perhaps William Rishanger. It is a history of one of the most important abbeys, under royal patronage and always at the apex of the church hierarchy; it also offers a glimpse of life inside the monastic community from the Conquest to within a century of the Dissolution. There are detailed descriptions of the building, and rebuilding, of the abbey church, and recounts the abbey's commitment to the making of books, from thefirst flowering of the scriptorium in the twelfth century - when a famous psalter was made for the anchorite Christina of Markyate - to its Indian summer in the years before 1400 under Thomas Walsingham himself. There are rare snapshots of the daily routine of the monks, their liturgical observances, their interactions with their staff, tenants, townspeople and guests. And it captures the colour and character of the celebrated figures seen at the abbey, from King John to Edward the Black Prince.

Author : Paul Lawrence
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ISBN 13 : 9781905636914
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book A Plague of Sinners written by Paul Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Harry Lytle and his sidekick Dowling the Butcher investigate the grisly murder of the Earl of St. Albans, they thwart plots on their lives as subsequent murders follow and the Black Plague wreaks havoc on 1665 London.

Author : Frederick Maurice Powicke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Compilation of the 'Chronica Majora' of Matthew Paris written by Frederick Maurice Powicke and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vivian Hunter Galbraith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719003981
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anonimalle Chronicle, 1333 to 1381 written by Vivian Hunter Galbraith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Paris
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flowers of History written by Matthew Paris and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: