English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History - Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppee
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Florence of Worcester, died 1118: (Chronicon ex Chronicis,) Chronicle from
the Chronicles, from the Creation to 1118, (with two valuable additions to 1141, and to 1295.) Matthew of Westminster, end of thirteenth century (probably a fictitious name): Flowers of the Histories, (Flores Historiarum.) Eadmer, died about 1124: history of his own time, (Historia Novorum, sive sui seculi.) Giraldus Cambrensis, born 1146, known as Girald Barry: numerous histories, including Topographia Hiberniæ, and the Norman conquest of Ireland; also several theological works. Henry of Huntingdon, first half of the twelfth century: History of England. Alured of Rievaux, 1109-66: The Battle of the Standard. Roger de Hoveden, end of twelfth century: Annales, from the end of Bede's history to 1202. Matthew Paris, monk of St. Alban's, died 1259: Historia Major, from the Norman conquest to 1259, continued by William Rishanger to 1322. Ralph Higden, fourteenth century: Polychronicon, or Chronicle of Many Things; translated in the fifteenth century, by John de Trevisa; printed by Caxton in 1482, and by Wynken de Worde in 1485. |
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