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The St Albans Chronicle: The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham: Volume II 1394-1422

The St Albans Chronicle: The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham: Volume II 1394-1422

Taylor, John
Childs, Wendy R.
Watkiss, Leslie

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Medieval Texts

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryLinguistics

ISBN10: 0199253463
ISBN13: 9780199253463
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: Sep 5 2011
Pages: 992
Weight: 3.08
Height: 2.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Thomas Walsingham, a monk of St Albans, has been described as the last of the great medieval chroniclers. His major work, the Chronica maiora, covers the years 1376-1422, and is arguably the most important account of English history to be written in England at this time. Walsingham's text has never been published as a continuous whole. It is found in no fewer than three separate publications in the Rolls Series, and was printed from manuscripts whose exact identity was not then clearly understood. The nature of the Rolls Series publications, and the different versions of the chronicle have raised questions concerning the relationship of the various manuscripts of the Chronica maiora, and also of Walsingham's own involvement with the text. In this new edition these problems are considered and the Chronica maiora is shown to be predominantly the work of one man, Thomas Walsingham.

Volume II of the St Albans Chronicle (1394-1422) now completes the edition. Drawing on the text in Bodley 462 and confirming the work of V. H. Galbraith, the editors make clear that the Annales Ricardi Secundi et Henrici Quarti (regarded in the Rolls Series as a separate chronicle) were an integral part of the Chronica maiora. They also argue that, while Walsingham's contribution as author in the later years was much smaller than in the years to 1393 (when he was without doubt the sole author), it is most likely that he supervised the whole work; and at times, as in the vivid and dramatic descriptions of the battles of Shrewsbury and of Agincourt, his own style is again apparent.

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