The Chronicles of England (Fifteenth Century) Executed or Edward IV. This illustration gives a good example of the general characteristics of this period. Loss or other causes have reduced the original series of seven noble volumes, mentioned by the author, to three or four, now carefully preserved in the British Museum. The work was probably written in the early part of the reign of King Edward IV., and with the especial view of defending and flattering the King and the House of York. The first part of these Chronicles contains a strange compound of traditional history mingled with the able and romance of the early portion of the middle ages, not omitting the slaying of giants and marine monsters, with singular copiousness of detail. The portion from the accession of Edward III. to the death of Richard II. would appear to have been principally taken from the Chronicles of Froissart. THE UNIVERSAL ANTHOLOGY A COLLECTION OF THE BEST LITERATURE, ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN, EDITED BY RICHARD GARNETT KEEPER OF PRINTED BOOKS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, LONDON, 1851 TO 1899 LEON VALLÉE LIBRARIAN AT THE BIBLIOTHÈQUE NATIONALE, PARIS, SINCE 187! ALOIS BRANDL PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE IN THE IMPERIAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN vilt Entered at Stationers' Hall Droits de reproduction et de traduction réservé Paris, 1899 Alle rechte, insbesondere das der Ubersetzung, vorbehalten Propricta Letieraria, Riservaté tutti i divitti Rome, 1899 Copyright 1899 by Richard Garnett THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE |