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Radulphus de Marham
(427 words)
[Ralph Marham] d. 1389. England. Friar and cellarer of the East Anglian Augustinian house at Norwich. Author of
Manipulus Chronicorum ab Mundi initio usque ad sua tempora, surviving in Cambridge, Gonville & Caius, ms. 26/15 (15th century) and Paris, BnF, lat. ms. 4928 (1300-25). The former manuscript begins imperfectly and ends mid-page at Book Five. The latter identifies in its preface the compiler as Radulphus by means of a cipher, or code, made from its first lines. Obviously working presentation copies, these manuscripts are divided into
distinctiones and
capitula by a hierarch…
Date:
2021-04-15
Monsters and monstrous races
(2,128 words)
Monsters and monstrous races are a common theme in chronicles, which frequently see prodigious events as portents, and describe the exotic periphery of the world in geographical excursus.Though few historians will agree on exactly how medieval annals, chronicles and
historiae differ from each other, most believe these historical genres focus on human events, and so do not provide a suitable frame for monster lore. Annals will record year by year things "outside" the ordinary, comets, births of two- headed babies and the like, but dis…
Date:
2021-04-15
John de Foxton
(442 words)
ca 1369 - ca 1450. England. A York cleric and household chaplain. In 1408 he compiled the
Liber Cosmographiae, an encyclopaedia existing in one manuscript, Cambridge, Trinity College, R.15.21, that has Latin prose annalistic additions giving a genealogical summary of biblical, world, and British history with emphasis on the archdiocese of York. It copies verbatim a set of parchment oak-framed history tables once prominently displayed in the Vicars' Choral of the Cathedral. Foxton possibly compiled the work for John Erghome, the prior of the Augustinian convent at York.The tables t…
Date:
2021-04-15
