Peterborough Chronicle
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The Peterborough Chronicle is a version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle originally maintained by the monks of Peterborough Abbey, now in Cambridgeshire. It contains unique information about the history o
The opening page of the Laud Manuscript. The scribal hand is the copyist's work rather than either the First or Second continuation scribes. Translation of this scanned page.
The "softe and god" King Stephen, or Stephen of Blois, whom the Peterborough author blames for The Anarchy.
Middle English
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Middle English is the forms of the English language that were spoken in England after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century, roughly coinciding with the High and Late Middle Ages. T
Peterborough Chronicle
…the period 1070 to 1154 in England written in English and from a non-courtly point of view. It is also a valuable source of information about the early Middle English language itself. The first continuation, for example, is written in late Old English, but the second continuation begins to show mixed forms, until the…
A page from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, published in the late 14th century
Manuscript copy of Piers Ploughman