Chronicles (Verse)
Lazanon’s Brut
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written about 1205 by Lazamon, a monk pf Arley Kings.
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Alliterative verse with more than 30000 lines.
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tells the history of Britain from the landing of Brutus to death of Cadwallader.
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It is a treasure house of legends of King Arthur. Source: Roman de Brut of Wace (a translation into Norman of the Histopia Regum Britanniae of Geoffreyof Monmouth).
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It talks about descendants of Aeneas, Brutus, founder of Britain and Arthur and many other mythical princes as King Lear.
Robert of Gloucester: More than one possible author. But one was Robert, a monk of Gloucester who wrote it in 13th C.
Robert Manning of Brunne:
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Written by Robert.
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His two other works: Handlying Synne and Mannyng’s Chronicle.
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It begins with Noah and the Deluge and ends with the death of Edward I.
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Robert translated Wace’s Roman de Brut for British history from the Anglo-Norman.
Prose
Katherine Group
Ancrene Riwle
The Ancrene Riwle – 12th C
The Azenbite of Inwyt – 1340 ( written by Dan Michel of North-gate and comes from Canterbury. Translation of French Work. Most important text in South-eastern and Kentish dialect)
