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The Chronicles of Rome: An Edition of the Middle English The Chronicle of Popes and Emperors and the Lollard Chronicle (Medieval Chronicles)

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The two Middle English chronicles presented here record the lives of the popes and emperors of Rome; they are the only surviving Middle English texts devoted principally to such material. The first is the fourteenth-century Chronicle of Popes and Emperors , a translation and abbreviation of Martinus Polonus's thirteenth-century Chronicon Pontificum et Imperatorum ; it served as a reference book for clerics and religious institutions, providing some 300 biographies. The second is the Lollard Chronicle , a selection of popes' and emperors' biographies aiming to discredit the papacy and justify the sovereignty of secular authorities in accordance with Wycliffite doctrines; it provides vital evidence for a Lollard reading of history.
This volume is the first in a series which aims to publish previously unedited Middle English chronicles of historical or literary importance.

Professor DAN EMBREE teaches at Mississippi State University.

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First published January 14, 1999

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