The Chronicles of Rome: An Edition of the Middle English the Chronicle of Popes and Emperors and the Lollard Chronicle

By: Dan Embree

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851155979
• ISBN13: 9780851155975
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"