Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, monachi Cestrensis : Together with the English Translations of John Trevisa and of an Unknown Writer of the Fifteenth Century (Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, monachi Cestrensis 9 Volume Set)

Higden, Ranulf/ Lumby, Joseph Rawson (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2012/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 564 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108048521

Full Description

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, the most important being 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 3 contains the remainder of Book 2, and Book 3 covers the ancient world up to the age of Alexander the Great.

Contents

Introduction; Summary of contents; Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, liber secundus, cap. XXIX; Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, liber tertius.