The Chronicles of Rome: An Edition of the Middle English "Chronicle of Popes and Emperors" and "The Lollard Chronicle" (Medieval Chronicles) (Volume 1)

Dan Embree

ISBN 10: 0851155979 / ISBN 13: 9780851155975

Published by Boydell Press, 1999

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Hardcover, x + 310 pages, b&w facsimiles of the manuscripts pp viii-x, NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show moderate handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This volume provides a scholarly critical edition of two significant but previously unpublished Middle English chronicles: the Chronicle of Popes and Emperors and the Lollard Chronicle. The editor presents a meticulously transcribed and annotated text based on the surviving manuscripts. The introduction provides a detailed analysis of the chronicles' sources, their historical context, and their ideological leanings. The Chronicle of Popes and Emperors is shown to be a universal history with a focus on papal succession, while the Lollard Chronicle is revealed as a key text of religious dissent, offering a radical, Wycliffite interpretation of English history. The book makes these important primary sources accessible to scholars of late medieval English history, literature, and religious thought.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Chronicles of Rome: An Edition of the Middle English "Chronicle of Popes and Emperors" and "The Lollard Chronicle" (Medieval Chronicles) (Volume 1)
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851155979
• ISBN 13: 9780851155975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

The two Middle English chronicles presented here record the lives of the popes and emperors of Rome; they are the only surviving Middle English texts devoted principally to such material. The first is the fourteenth-century Chronicle of Popes and Emperors, a translation and abbreviation of Martinus Polonus's thirteenth-century Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum; it served as a reference book for clerics and religious institutions, providing some 300 biographies. The second is the Lollard Chronicle, a selection of popes' and emperors' biographies aiming to discredit the papacy and justify the sovereignty of secular authorities in accordance with Wycliffite doctrines; it provides vital evidence for a Lollard reading of history.
This volume is the first in a series which aims to publish previously unedited Middle English chronicles of historical or literary importance.

Professor DAN EMBREE teaches at Mississippi State University.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin