Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chro
Thomas Walsingham, a monk of St Albans, has been described as the last of the great medieval chroniclers. His major work, the 'Chronica Maiora', covers the year
Thomas Walsingham has been described as the last of the great medieval chroniclers, and his St Albans Chronicle is arguably the most important account of Englis
Even as a canon, he lived in princely style, with a retinue of two knights and forty squires, and he wrote at the request of John of Hainault, the uncle of quee