Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris Observations of the Thirteenth-Century Life

A unique record of life & events in the 13th century with over 100 full-color reproductions of the original manuscript decorations. The autograph manuscript of the chronicle of the medieval English monk Matthew Paris is housed at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, U.K. Matthew Paris was probably born about 1200. He became a monk in the Benedictine monastery of St. Albans in 1217 & died there in 1259. Although he wrote in Latin & at times also in French, English seems to have been his native language. Europe in the 13th century was an expanding, outward-looking Europe, still living in the world of the crusades, which figure largely in these pages.Vaughan, Richard is the author of 'Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris Observations of the Thirteenth-Century Life' with ISBN 9780788195051 and ISBN 0788195050.