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

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 -- This volume provides a scholarly critical edition of two significant but previously unpublished Middle English chronicles: the Chronicle of Popes and Emperors and the Lollard Chronicle.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.…