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Medieval Chronicles
Chronicles and annals of medieval Europe in public-domain translation.
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Texts
Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade — VillehardouinGeoffrey of Villehardouin's eyewitness chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the 1204 conquest of Constantinople, in Frank T. Marzials's 1908 translation.Chronicle of the Kings of England — William of Malmesbury (Giles)William of Malmesbury's twelfth-century history of the English kings from 449 to 1142, in John Sharpe's 1815 translation as revised and expanded by J. A. Giles for Bohn's Antiquarian Library in 1847.Early Lives of Charlemagne — GrantTwo ninth-century lives of Charlemagne — Einhard's brief eyewitness-adjacent biography and the Monk of St Gall's legend-filled companion narrative — in A. J. Grant's 1905 edition and translation.Old English Chronicles — GilesJ. A. Giles's 1848 collected edition of six early British chronicles: Ethelwerd, Asser's Life of Alfred, Geoffrey of Monmouth's British History, Gildas, Nennius, and the eighteenth-century Richard of Cirencester forgery.The Alexiad — Anna Comnena (Dawes)The complete Alexiad in Elizabeth A. S. Dawes's 1928 translation, Anna Comnena's Byzantine history of her father Emperor Alexius I's reign (1081-1118) and a major near-contemporary source for the First Crusade.The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle — IngramThe complete Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in James Ingram's 1823 translation, collated with J. A. Giles's readings, covering Britain's history from before the Christian era to 1154.The Chronicle of Novgorod — Michell and ForbesThe Chronicle of Novgorod, 1016–1471 — the annal-by-year record of Lord Novgorod the Great, translated from the Russian by Robert Michell and Nevill Forbes for the Camden Society, with C. Raymond Beazley's introduction and A. A. Shakhmatov's account of the manuscript tradition.The Memoirs of Philip de Commines — Scoble — Volume IVolume I of Andrew R. Scoble's 1855 English edition of Philippe de Commines's Memoirs: the editor's Introduction and Life of Commines, and Books the First through Fifth, covering the wars and reign of Louis XI, 1464-1483.The Memoirs of Philip de Commines — Scoble — Volume IIVolume II of Andrew R. Scoble's 1855 English edition of Philippe de Commines's Memoirs: Books the Sixth through Eighth, closing with the death of Charles VIII in 1498, followed by Scoble's translation of the anonymous Scandalous Chronicle of the reign of Louis XI.