Theoe Flowers Of History

Author : Matthew of Westminster
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ISBN 13 : 9781330914014
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Flowers of History, Vol. 1 of 2 written by Matthew of Westminster and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Flowers of History, Vol. 1 of 2: Especially Such as Relate to the Affairs of Britain; From the Beginning of the World to the Year 1907 The author of the following Chronicle was a Benedictine Monk, who flourished probably in the early part of the fourteenth century, though some place him near the end of it. It begins with the creation of the world, and continues to the end of the reign of Edward the First. In his Preface, the Author speaks as if he intended to write the history of the whole world; but after the time of the Heptarchy, he very rarely mentions the affairs of any country except Great Britain. The early portion of the work is merely an abridgment of the Bible: then he gives us a brief sketch of Home, making little mention of Greece, except where its history is connected with that of the Jews or Romans. Of our own early times he gives us the fabidous traditions of Brutus (whom he represents as the great-grandson of AEeas), and Pandrasus, and Corinaeus, and Camber; relates the sad story of Lear, the prophecy of Merlin, and so conducts us through the Mars of Vortimer and Vortigern, &c., to the times of comparatively certain history. It is, of course, after this point that his work begins to be really valuable; for he was not only a careful observer, and a great master of plain and simple narrative, but, what was even more uncommon in the days in which he wrote, he paid great attention to order and chronology. 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."