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Definition: chronicle 1 from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

(14c) 1 : a historical account of events arranged in order of time usu. without analysis or interpretation 〈a ⁓ of the Civil War〉 2 : narrative 1

chronicle

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Record of events in order of time, without any interpretation. In the development of literary genres, it predates true history, which involves the analysis of facts and how they relate to one another. Well-known examples are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , which is written in Old English and continues to the end of the 12th century, Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae , c. 1139, and Matthew Paris's Chronica Majora from the 13th century. Early chronicles Chronicles date from Greek and Roman times. Gildas wrote De Excidio Britanniae/On the Destruction of Britain , beginning with the Romans and ending at 516. In turn, his work was used by Bede , to compile his work Ecclesiastical History , which recounted events as late as 731. Much later, Florence of Worcester produced a Chronicon ex Chronicis , which, as its name indicates, is a compendium of the work of earlier annalists. 11th and 12 centuries The high Middle Ages saw a flourishing of the chronicle form. Eadmer wrote Historia…
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English has a number of words derived from Greek khrónos ‘time’, among them chronology [16], chronometer ‘timepiece’ [18], and crony . And from its adjective kronikós ‘of time’ comes English chronic [15], by way of Latin chronicus , which in medieval times picked up the medical connotations which…
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Full text Article Chronicles

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
two books of the Bible, originally a single work in the Hebrew canon (the final book of that canon), called First and Second Chronicles in the Authorized Version, and called First and Second Paralipomenon in the Septuagint and in the Vulgate . Their author is referred to simply as the Chronicler. …
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From Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: A Companion to Late Antique Literature Full text Article LITERARY FORMS
11.1 Introduction One of the most distinctive and complex literary forms of late antiquity is that of chronicles. The chronology of the West in the fifth century is impossible without them, and for the entire empire from the beginning of the fourth to the first quarter of the seventh century they…
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Full text Article chronicle

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Record of events in order of time, without any interpretation. In the development of literary genres, it predates true history, which involves the analysis of facts and how they relate to one another. Well-known examples are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle , which is written in Old English and continues…
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Full text Article Chronicles

From Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
Also known as: Chroniques 1369–1404 Work Author: Jean Froissart The most important work of French prose from the 14th century, Jean Froissart's Chroniques (“Chronicles”) provide a vivid account in four books of roughly the first half of the Hundred Years’ War between England and France. Froissart, a…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
official record of events, set down in order of occurrence, important to the people of a nation, state, or city. Almanacs, The Congressional Record in the United States, and the Annual Register in England are chronicles. From ancient times rulers have made certain that written records of their…
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Full text Article chroniclers

From Latin American History and Culture: Encyclopedia of Pre-Colonial Latin America (Prehistory to 1550s)
The chroniclers ( cronistas , in Spanish), as understood in the 16th century, wrote about the lives and deeds of rulers and those who excelled because of their virtue, military skill, or intellect. Since their inception in the Middle Ages, chroniclers had a strong pedagogical orientation. The…
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Full text Article Peterborough Chronicle

From Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
The Peterborough Chronicle is the most recent and the longest sustained of the seven extant manuscripts of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle . Each manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the “common stock”—the original account of the history of Britain from 60 BCE until the reign of King Alfred the…
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Full text Article Dalimil's Chronicle

From Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
ca. 1310 The so-called Dalimil's Chronicle is the first verse chronicle in the Czech language, dating probably to the beginning of the 14th century. The name Dalimil is traditionally given to the author of this text, but it seems unlikely that any such person ever existed. Based largely on the…
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Full text Article Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
collective name given several English monastic chronicles in Anglo-Saxon, all stemming from a compilation made from old annals and other sources c.891. Although the work was thought for some time to have been commissioned by King Alfred , there is no positive evidence to substantiate this claim; his…
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