- 1364) was an
English chronicler and a
Benedictine monk who
wrote the
Polychronicon, a Late
Medieval magnum opus.
Higden resided at the
monastery of St...
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Westbury on Trym. He
translated into
English for his
patron the
Latin Polychronicon of
Ranulf Higden,
adding remarks of his own, and
prefacing it with a...
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dedicatory Epistle, it
forms the
introduction to his 1387
translation of the
Polychronicon of
Ranulf Higden,
commissioned by Trevisa's patron, Lord Berkeley. Written...
- –
Petrarch becomes poet
laureate at a
ceremony in Rome. 1357 – The
Polychronicon concludes,
Ranulf Higden having ceased work on it at
least a
dozen years...
- that most
contemporary chroniclers were
highly critical of Edward. The
Polychronicon, Vita
Edwardi Secundi, Vita et Mors
Edwardi Secundi and the
Gesta Edwardi...
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Middle English still used the
Latin form Carthago, e.g., John Trevisa,
Polychronicon (1387) 1.169: That
womman Dido that
founded Carthago was comlynge. see:...
- one of the most
widely circulated medieval English educational works,
Polychronicon by
Ranulf Higden, a few
years later. Both
these works, with Adam of...
- Eulogiim, iii. 337). It is ****erted by Caxton, in his
continuation of the "
Polychronicon", cap.8, that the
Prince died at his
manor of
Kennington and that his...
- example, in 1352, he
enquired of
Ranulf Higden regarding the latter's own
Polychronicon.
Ormrod estimates Edward to have
spent around £130,000 on expanding...
-
discovered by
Julian Luxford in 2009,
appears in the
margin of the "
Polychronicon" in the Eton
College library.
Written around the year 1460 by a monk...
