Table of Contents

Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Telling the Truth
2. Godwitness Testimonity
3. Memory and Usefulness
4 Genealogy and Institutional History
5 The Deeds of Warriors
6. Time and Place
7. Language, Forma and Identity
8. English History in the Later Middle Ages
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

An examine of the ways in which chronicles were used during the middle ages.

About the Author

Christopher Given-Wilson is Professor of Late Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ages, Chronicles of Revolution, 1397-1400 and editor of The Chronicle of Adam Usk. He is also General Editor of The Parliament Rolls of Medieval England.