The chronicles of medieval England and Scotland: Part I

Abstract

The aim of this study, which will be in two parts, is to classify and characterize the chronicles of medieval England and, to a lesser extent, of Scotland. Attention is especially paid to their later sections, those dealing with the authors' own times. Part I discusses the subject in general. Part II will examine a particular aspect in more detail: it will describe, with illustrative photographs of manuscripts, some of the methods an author might use to compose the contemporary section of a chronicle; then he had the problem of reducing the miscellaneous items of news, which reached him sporadically, to chronological order and narrative coherence.Part I is divided into six sections: 1. Definition of the term “chronicle”, and the usage adopted here; 2. A brief survey of chronicle writing; 3. The provenance of chronicles; 4. Motives for writing chronicles; 5. The government's use of, and influence on, chronicles; 6. Suggested reasons for the decline of the chronicle as an historiographical genre.

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