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Robert Mannyng Of Brunne - Research Paper

Robert Mannyng Of Brunne

lived during the late thirteenth, early fourteenth
centuries. He was an Englishman who took holy orders with the minor
Gilbertines, a Puritan religious order.
He wrote two major works: Handlyng Synne (first printed about 1303) and The
Chronicle of England, produced in his old age in 1338. Brunne translated
both Handlyng Synne and Chronicle from French or Latin works, altering them
considerably in the process. Like many translators of this era, Brunne
took many liberties with the works he translated. He adopted for his
audience (the ordinary people of England), often adding in large tracts of
his own material and using simplified language that they were likely to
understand. Brunne's ...

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life provides a fine social history of
fourteenth-century England - it is far more history than literature. On the
other hand, The Chronicle of England is an epic bildungsroman largely based
on fiction and myth, and uses the works of Geoffrey Crayon, Franklin of
Avalon, Geoffrey Monmouth, Wace, Shakespeare,Pierre Langtoft and Bede as
its bases. Both Handlyng Synne and The Chronicle of England are massive
works, many thousandsof lines long.

Sources

Frederick Furnivall, ed. The Chronicle of England,2 volumes. London, 1887

Ethan Brand, ed. Handlyng Synne, London and New York, Chadwick, 1955 ...

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Added: 9/22/2004 05:37:38 AM
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