The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham [1376-1422]
Book description
Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award
Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark
Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chronicles to survive from medieval England. Walsingham was a monk at St Albans Abbey, a royal monastery and…
Why read it?
1 author picked The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham [1376-1422] as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Thomas of Walsingham was a monk in the abbey of St Albans, then the equivalent of the National Archives where all official documents were deposited about the war.
Based on the reports, letters, charters, and reports of parliamentary debates that Thomas was able to access, he wrote a history from 1376 until the year that he died, 1422, so the work is an account of the war as it appeared to an educated contemporary.
From Gordon's list on the Hundred Years' War.
Want books like The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham [1376-1422]?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham [1376-1422].
Browse books like The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham [1376-1422]