The Chronicles of Rome
An Edition of the Middle English The Chronicle of Popes and Emperors and the Lollard Chronicle
Dan Embree(Editor)
Boydell Press
Published on 14. January 1999
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-85115-597-5 (ISBN)
Description
First full English edition of the only surviving Middle English texts devoted to the lives of the popes and emperors of Rome.
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, providingsome 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.
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, providingsome 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.
Reviews / Votes
Their very existence is an historical fact of interest which has eminently justified this edition. * JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY * Careful scholarly editions of the only two surviving Middle English treatises of any length devoted exclusively to European political and ecclesiastical history... the most valuable service provided by Embree in this edition is a massive set of explanatory notes in which the factual materials in these chronicles are carefully sorted out from fictional ones. * SPECULUM *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
3 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85115-597-5 (9780851155975)
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