Chronicon Angliæ, ab Anno Domini 1328 usque ad Annum 1388 Thompson Paperback

Chronicon Angli, ab Anno Domini 1328 usque ad Annum 1388Auctore Monacho quodam Sancti Albani\nAuthor(s): Edward Maunde Thompson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108049207, 978-1108049207\nSynopsis\nThomas of Walsingham ([url] was a monk of St Alban's abbey whose Latin chronicle of the years [tel] was long thought lost. It was rediscovered by chance and edited by Edward Maunde Thompson [tel], whose edition, published in 1874 with English side-notes, is based on a Harleian manuscript he found in the British Museum, supplemented by Bodleian and Cottonian manuscripts. Walsingham's chronicle is notable for its scurrilous attacks on John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster and father of Henry IV. This scandalous material accounts for its suppression by the monks of St Alban's, who would have been fearful of offending the Plantagenet dynasty. Thompson's introduction provides a full history of the discovery a.