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MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA History, in the sense of records of events and customs, also emerged as a genre of writing about the same time as the universities developed. Matthew Paris was a thirteenth-century monk and chronicler who wrote and probably also illustrated a history of England, his native land. His Chronicles of England is represented here by reproductions of illustrations from the original manuscript of his work. |
 City of Acre, from a map of the Holy Land Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 26 (fol.11v) From R. Vaughn, editor and translator. The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris. Observations of 13th Century Life (Gloucestershire, 1993) |
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