Format:
1 Online-Ressource (572 pages)
ISBN:
9781139225403
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection
Uniform Title:
Polychronicon
Content:
Ranulf Higden (d.1364) was a monk at the abbey of St Werburgh in Chester. His most important literary work is this universal chronicle, which survives in over a hundred Latin manuscripts, testifying to its popularity. The earliest version of it dates from 1327, but Higden continued writing until his death, expanding and updating the text. It was also continued in other monastic houses, most importantly by John Malvern of Worcester. The English translation made by John Trevisa in the 1380s was also widely circulated and is included in this work, published in nine volumes for the Rolls Series between 1865 and 1886. The chronicle shows how fourteenth-century scholars understood world history and geography. Volume 4 contains the rest of Book 3, on the Hellenistic period up to the birth of Christ, and the start of Book 4, up to the end of the first century CE
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781108048538
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781108048538
Language:
Latin
Keywords:
Higden, Ranulfus 1280-1364 Polychronicon
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John Trevisa 1342-1402
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Übersetzung
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Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139225403
Author information:
Lumby, Joseph Rawson 1831-1895
Author information:
John Trevisa 1342-1402
Author information:
Higden, Ranulfus 1280-1364
