Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Politics and the People in Thirteenth-Century England
- Peasants, Litigation and Agency in Medieval England: the Development of Law in Manorial Courts in the late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
- Medieval Accounting Memoranda from Norwich Cathedral Priory
- The Seals of London's Governing Elite in the Thirteenth Century
- The Marriages of the English Earls in the Thirteenth Century: a Social Perspective
- Monks and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Wales and Catalonia
- Lope Fernández, Bishop of Morocco: His Diplomatic Role in the Planning of an Anglo-Castilian Crusade into Northern Africa
- On Kingship and Tyranny: Grosseteste's Memorandum and its Place in the Baronial Reform Movement
- St Edmund of Canterbury and Henry III in the Shadow of Thomas Becket
- Matthew Paris and the Royal Christmas: Ritualised Communication in Text and Practice
- Thomas of Lancaster in the Vita Edwardi Secundi: a Study in Disillusionment
- John and Henry III in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut
- Genealogiae orbiculatae: Matthew Paris and the Invention of Visual Abstracts of English History
- The Genealogical Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Edition
Genealogiae orbiculatae: Matthew Paris and the Invention of Visual Abstracts of English History
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Politics and the People in Thirteenth-Century England
- Peasants, Litigation and Agency in Medieval England: the Development of Law in Manorial Courts in the late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
- Medieval Accounting Memoranda from Norwich Cathedral Priory
- The Seals of London's Governing Elite in the Thirteenth Century
- The Marriages of the English Earls in the Thirteenth Century: a Social Perspective
- Monks and Politics in Thirteenth-Century Wales and Catalonia
- Lope Fernández, Bishop of Morocco: His Diplomatic Role in the Planning of an Anglo-Castilian Crusade into Northern Africa
- On Kingship and Tyranny: Grosseteste's Memorandum and its Place in the Baronial Reform Movement
- St Edmund of Canterbury and Henry III in the Shadow of Thomas Becket
- Matthew Paris and the Royal Christmas: Ritualised Communication in Text and Practice
- Thomas of Lancaster in the Vita Edwardi Secundi: a Study in Disillusionment
- John and Henry III in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut
- Genealogiae orbiculatae: Matthew Paris and the Invention of Visual Abstracts of English History
- The Genealogical Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Edition
Summary
Matthew Paris, the great thirteenth-century St Albans chronicler, who stands as one of the major historians of medieval Europe, has long been acknowledged as a firsthand authority for English and European events during his lifetime and as one of the richest sources of information about them, especially for the period 1235–1259. Yet, this very prolific historian and hagiographer, whose numerous writings it would be too long and unnecessary to list exhaustively here, is mostly known for his Chronica majora, an impressive and voluminous universal chronicle mainly centred on English history, which incorporates a ‘re-issue’ of the Flores historiarum of his immediate predecessor at St Albans, Roger of Wendover. Most of his other historical narratives, such as the Historia Anglorum, the Abbreviatio chronicorum Angliae and his own Flores historiarum, still sizeable indeed, are all, one way or another, abridgements of – or a complement to, in the case of the Liber additamentorum – the ‘monument’ that is the Chronica majora, which undoubtedly was, in his own eyes, his greatest achievement. The other characteristic which has held the attention of historians or art historians is his undeniable talent as a draughtsman: he himself executed the major part of the marginal or prefatory drawings which tellingly illustrate the pages of his various autograph manuscripts.
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- Thirteenth Century England XIVProceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2011, pp. 183 - 202Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2013