Title: The chronicles of Rome
First published: 1999
Description: 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 three hundred 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.
Subjects: Criticism, Textual, Early works to 1800, English language, Lollard chronicle, Lollards, Manuscripts, English (Middle), Manuscripts, Medieval, Medieval Manuscripts, Texts, Textual Criticism, Transmission of texts, World history, Rome, history, Popes, Middle ages, historiography, Rome, biography, Rome, historiography
Places: Cambridge, England
People: Martinus Polonus (d. 1279)
Time periods: Early works to 1800, Middle English, 1100-1500
LC classification: D17 .M28413 1999