Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- II.31 King Edward I, Letter to Pope Boniface VIII on Relations between England and Scotland
- II.32 The Trial of Alice Kyteler on a Charge of Witchcraft
- II.33 John of Gaddesden, an Operation to Remove a Cataract, from Rosa Anglica
- II.34 Historians of the Fourteenth Century
- II.35 Wills of Lay Men and Women
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.34 - Historians of the Fourteenth Century
from Fourteenth Century
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- Fourteenth Century
- II.31 King Edward I, Letter to Pope Boniface VIII on Relations between England and Scotland
- II.32 The Trial of Alice Kyteler on a Charge of Witchcraft
- II.33 John of Gaddesden, an Operation to Remove a Cataract, from Rosa Anglica
- II.34 Historians of the Fourteenth Century
- II.35 Wills of Lay Men and Women
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Henry Knighton (a canon of an abbey in Leicester) and Thomas Walsingham (a monk at St. Albans) were the leading historians of the period at the end of the fourteenth century. Here an intriguing account of a large group of women attending tournaments, colourfully dressed in men’s clothes, armed and on horseback, is included from Knighton’s Chronicle, along with excerpts about two of the revolutionary leaders of the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381, Jack Straw and John Ball: both were captured and beheaded.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 309 - 317Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024