Chronica Johannis De Reading Et Anonymi Cantuariensis

Author : James Tait
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ISBN 13 : 9781331890911
Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book Chronica Johannis De Reading Et Anonymi Cantuariensis, 1346-1367 (Classic Reprint) written by James Tait and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chronica Johannis De Reading Et Anonymi Cantuariensis, 1346-1367 The two short chronicles which form the nucleus of the present volume cannot claim to be more than a very modest addition to the materials available for the history of Edward Ills reign. All the more important chronicles of the middle ages in England have been printed, the great body of workers on original evidence are now busily engaged in harvesting the richer crop of national and local records, and the few who linger in the old field must be content to glean the little that their predecessors have overlooked. Nevertheless, the success which has attended the researches of Mr. Kingsford and others shows that this field is not yet entirely cleared. I venture to hope that the Westminster and Canterbury chronicles, which now for the first time appear in print, may not be thought unworthy of publication. Both are the work of writers contemporary with the events which they relate and, with the exception of the passages in their early pages which are distinguished by the use of a smaller type, neither seems to have borrowed from other chronicles. They are not, indeed, new discoveries, but they have never before been examined with much care. It is only in recent years that the identity of the author of the Westminster chronicle has been established, while there is strong reason for believing that the ascription of the Canterbury annals to Stephen Birchington is erroneous. This ascription stands or falls with the attribution of the Vitae archiepiscoporum Cantuariensium in the same Ms., which Henry Wharton published under Birchington sname, and, on more than one ground, this seems unjustified. Readings chronicle has often been consulted, and its importance as one of the sources of the St. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.