Edward Lear

This second of two volumes of Latin chronicles illustrating the reigns of Edward I (1272–1307) and Edward II (1307–27) was published in 1883. Included here is the Commendatio lamen...

The records of the medieval English courts were compiled into manuscript 'year books', organised by regnal year of the monarch, and further subdivided into the four law terms. The ...

As much as we may look for continuities across historical divides, the Interregnum and the closing of the theatres produced many kinds of fracture in the ways Shakespeare’s tragedi...