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... Chronicle Rhonda Knight University of Toledo Toledo, Ohio In his Chronicle, completed in 1338, Robert Mannyng of Brunne narrates the legendary events concerning Stonehenge’s relocation to Britain during the reign...

...-appreciated factor in the history of medieval diplomatic encounters. Examining chronicle sources and later literary renditions of the incident, retold from both French and an Anglo-Norman perspectives, the article reveals how medieval commentators made use of a rich emotional vocabulary in order either...

... history, Estiennot and Neville are read through the lens of feminist formalism. A Maurist and antiquarian, Estiennot wrote a chronicle of the Congregation of the English Benedictine Dames that exemplifies the professional revolution in historiography. Neville, in contrast, cultivated the humbler position...

...David Aers; Sarah Beckwith; Sonja Drimmer Chronicles of fifteenth-century England teem with severed heads. Frequently, these texts focus less on the event of decapitation than on its enduring result: namely, the modified and adorned head of the deceased, spiked and exhibited in a prominent public...

...Maya Mathur The Life and Death of Jack Straw chronicles the main events of the 1381 Rising in England and has traditionally been viewed as a warning about the dangers of rebellion from below. While recent studies of the play have challenged this perspective, they have focused chiefly on the drama’s...

...Anke Bernau Reading Thomas Elyot's Dictionary , this essay examines the legacy of medieval chronicle and fable for the early modern period. Elyot's influential work, here considered in its 1542 edition as Bibliotheca Eliotae , contains entries for both “Albion” and “Britannia,” topics which plunged...

... of Richard Plantagenet's extraction from sanctuary at Westminster in The History of Richard III (1557). Moreover, Ford redirects the language of contemporary chroniclers Francis Bacon and Thomas Gainsford in order to emphasize the link between sanctuary and practices of royal pity in the play. By positioning...

... moment in the arbitration of human affairs. This emphasis, in turn, bespeaks a broader concern over the timing of sacred icons during significant moments in Byzantine history as understood by contemporary chroniclers: namely, their failure to act in appropriate ways at critical moments when the empire...

... list assembled in 1134 and documented in the Liber Eliensis, which is a compilation of deeds, charters, privileges, and estate litigation designed to recount the history of the Benedictine monastery at Ely, England. This chronicle begins with a book-length vita of Æthelthryth, who is the house’s...

.... Bartholomew’s Smithfield.”32 Although chronicler Henry Machyn calls the Dominicans at St. Bart’s “the first howsse that was sett vp by quen mare ys [Queen Mary’s] tyme,” even if we accept Loades’s dating of sum- mer 1555, the Dominicans would still have been preceded by the Greenwich Observant Friars...

... of Augustus Caesar, sometimes to the history of the Jews or to contemporary crusade history.3 The chronicler also makes explicit comparisons between figures from the ancient past and powerful rulers of the twelfth and early thirteenth century.4 Sometimes he adds a moralizing digression on what...

... Patterson overturned this model in Reading Holin- shed’s “Chronicles” by providing copious evidence for reading the Chronicles as multivocal, ideologically capacious, and sympathetic to “instances of active social protest,” subsequent scholarship has, it seems, decided to remain unconvinced.2...

... Berkeley, California The common entry for the year 816 in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle reads in whole, as here from the C Text: Her Stephanus papa fordferde, & æfter him wæs Paschalis to papan gehalgod. & py ilcan geare forbarn Angelcynnes scole. [In this year, Pope Stephen died...

... the Rhine toward the east, they redirected their fervor toward the nearest non-Christians, the recently settled communities of Ashkenazic Jews.60 The massacres that resulted are described in vivid detail in Hebrew chronicles compiled in the twelfth century. The precise degree of historical accuracy...

... the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381, the events of which in London constituted what is arguably “the most disorderly crisis in the history of the medieval city.” 4 On June 13, 1381, rebels from Kent and Essex entered London, inspiring, so chroniclers tell us, many Londoners to join with them in their rising...

... Nun’s Tale Catherine Sanok University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan “In this yere was the pley of seynt Katerine.” So reads the entry for 1393 in the Chronicle of London contained in British Library, MS Cotton...

... derivative narratives, including LaVamon’s Brut and various metrical and prose chronicles, some of which also take their inspiration from the Alexander romance tradition. Occasion- ally, the inspiration is detectable in minor details of the text. As quoted above, the Norfolk translator of Pseudo...

... the others in the chronicle, accompanies a narrative: “From the beginning of the rule of the Incas and the end of their kingdom, as it ended and the kingdom was destroyed, the legitimate Inca kings ruled over this land for fifteen hundred fifteen y ears.”18 As the English title The First New...

..., or — as some chronicle sources have it — simply as the personal flaw that prevented Henry VI from ruling effec- tively. But as we will see, a popular cult of Henry VI — distinct from the royal propaganda that depended on it — was remarkably strong on the eve of the Reformation, and it persisted beyond...

... that his ancient New World conqueror belongs in the pages of a historical fiction like The Faerie Queene itself, not in the chronicle history of Britain. Antiquitie of Faerie lond begins with the creation of the first elf by Prometheus and ends with an allegorization of recent English history. The faery...