Death and Dissent: Two Fifteenth-Century Chronicles: The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis, translated by John Shirley; `Warkworth's Chronicle': the Chronicle attributed to John Warkworth, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge

Lister M Matheson (Curatore)

Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 1999

Edition of fifteenth-century chronicles providing important evidence for contemporary events, including the Wars of the Roses. This edition makes available for the first time to a wider audience two historically important fifteenth-century English chronicles, with full scholarly apparatus and comprehensive introductions. The Dethe of the Kynge of Scotis gives full and graphic accounts of the murder of James I of Scotland in 1437, and the subsequent executions of his assassins; translated from a lost Latin narrative by John Shirley, it is edited from the only full text thathas survived. `Warkworth's Chronicle', usually ascribed erroneously to John Warkworth, master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, is a frequently-cited source for events in the Wars of the Roses between 1461 and 1473, and gives a contemporary assessment of the supposed murders of Edward, Prince of Wales, and of Henry VI by Richard of Gloucester. Professor LISTER M. MATHESON taught at Michigan State University.

• Curatore: Lister M Matheson
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Collana: Medieval Chronicles
• Anno: 1999
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 167 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 410 gr.
• EAN: 9780851157252

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