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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Late Medieval Books, Vox Clamatis by John Gower

Vox Clamatis by John Gower is in Late Medieval Books.

Vox Clamantis ("the voice of one crying out") is a Latin poem of 10,265 lines in elegiac couplets by John Gower, 1330–1408.

Late Medieval Books, Vox Clamatis by John Gower, Vox Clamatis Book 1

Late Medieval Books, Vox Clamatis by John Gower, Vox Clamatis Book 1 Chapter 11

Vox Clamatis Book 1 Chapter 11.
Balle propheta docet, quem spiritus ante malignusBall the prophet teaches, he whom an evil spirit once instructed,
Edocuit, que sua tunc fuit alta scola.which was then his exalted school.
Talia quam plures furias per nomina noui,Many such furies by name I have known,795
Que fuerant alia pauca recordor ego:Though of the others I remember only a few.
Sepius exclamant monstrorum vocibus altis,They often cry out with the high voices of monsters,
Atque modis variis dant variare tonos.And in various ways they shift and alter tones.
Balle propheta docet, quem spiritus ante malignusBall the prophet teaches, he whom an evil spirit once instructed,
Edocuit, que sua tunc fuit alta scola.which was then his exalted school.
Talia quam plures furias per nomina noui,Many such furies by name I have known,795
Que fuerant alia pauca recordor ego:Though of the others I remember only a few.
Sepius exclamant monstrorum vocibus altis,They often cry out with the high voices of monsters,
Atque modis variis dant variare tonos.And in various ways they shift and alter tones.