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Writing and Picturing History: Historical Manuscripts from the Royal collection

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Chronicles
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Chronicles



Further reading

Antonia, Gransden, Historical Writing in England, vol. 1: C.550 To C.1307 (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974), vol. 2: c.1307 To The Early Sixteenth Century (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982).

Anne D. Hedeman, The Royal Image: Illustrations of the Grandes Chroniques de France, 1274-1422 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991).

Chris Given-Wilson, Chronicles: The Writing of History in Medieval England, (London, 2004).

Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Britain and France, ed. by Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward D. Kennedy, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe, 16 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008).

The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. by Graeme Dunphy, 2 vols (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

Elizabeth Morrison and Anne D. Hedeman, Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500, (Los Angeles: J. P. Getty Museum, 2010).

On-line projects:

The online Froissart: A Digital Edition of the Chronicles of Jean Froissart

Imagining the Past in France, 1250–1500, Exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, November 16, 2010–February 6, 2011
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