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This book collects, for the first time, primary documents associated with the Jack Cade Rebellion that have been translated into Present-Day English. It includes the rebels’ petitions, entries from medieval and early modern chronicles, letters and formal correspondences, official government documents, and political poems of the fifteenth century.
Sommario
Part I: Medieval and Early Modern Chronicles
Chapter 1: From Robert Bale's Chronicle
Chapter 2: From John Benet's Chronicle, Translated from Latin into English by Molly A. Martin
Chapter 3: From An English Chronicle, 1377-1461
Chapter 4: From A Short English Chronicle
Chapter 5: From A Chronicle of London in Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Gough London 10 45
Chapter 6: From Gregory's Chronicle
Chapter 7: From Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland
Chapter 8: From John Stone's Chronicle
Chapter 9: From the Middle English Prose Brut
Chapter 10: From A Chronicle of London in London, British Library MS Cotton Vitellius A XVI
Chapter 11: From The Great Chronicle of London
Chapter 12: From Robert Fabyan's The New Chronicles of England and France
Chapter 13: From John Mair's Historia Maioris Britanniae tam Angliae quam Scotiae (History of Greater Britain)
Chapter 14: From Hall's Chronicle
Chapter 15: From Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia
Chapter 16: From George North's A Brief Discourse of Rebell
Info autore
Alexander L. Kaufman is Reed D. Voran Distinguished Professor of Honors Humanities and professor of English at Ball State University.
Riassunto
This book collects, for the first time, primary documents associated with the Jack Cade Rebellion that have been translated into Present-Day English. It includes the rebels’ petitions, entries from medieval and early modern chronicles, letters and formal correspondences, official government documents, and political poems of the fifteenth century.
