.... The story, which draws from family history, local accounts, and articles in the Dorset County Chronicle, tells of a widowed sergeant who feels forsaken by his son, and in a state of despair, takes his life. The coroner rules a felo de se (or ‘felon of himself’), and the sergeant’s body is buried...

..., and had inherited and extended the large library of his cousin Hermann. By the early 1490s, Hartmann Schedel was centrally involved in the most complex printing project before 1500, the so-called Nuremberg Chronicle, the first printed book to be conceived for publication both in scholarly Latin...

...The most important of all the sources considered is the Chronicon Paschale, a universal chronicle written by a member of the patriarchal staff in Constantinople. The last contemporary part, covering the years 602–28, is shown to be composed almost entirely out of material...

... and incongruities in the conducting of the 1924–5 campaign, with its controversial settlement, but they were overlooked in international circles. The book chronicles the problems encountered during the Vykom campaign—a major, early effort to develop a practical technique for groups collectively to fight for social...

... sanctuary to Athena, to have a glorious history. The Lindian Chronicle was just one element in the documentation of that lost and partially imagined world. Favro Diane Lindos and Lindians Athena Lysippos Rhodes island Demetrius Poliorcetes Elsner J Porter James I Rhodes city Rutherford Ian Second...

...Modern scholars have often presented Henry VIII and his chief ministers as the prime movers behind the reform of religion in 1530s England. Edward Hall, a Protestant-minded MP in the Reformation parliament, sharply contested this view in his chronicle, The Union of the Two Noble...

...Certain Lanna chronicles recount that the Buddha visited southeast Asia during his lifetime. He left strands of his hair and imprints of his feet for his devotees and made predictions about the future greatness of Lanna cities. These accounts depict Lanna places not as sites of Buddhist conquest...

...This chapter shows how, in becoming the owner of the State Chronicle in 1885, Josephus Daniels laid the foundation for a move up the economic ladder. His next objective was to move up the social ladder. A judicious marriage might help on that front. Those who knew Daniels well...

... determination Smathers George W “Southern Manifesto ” Washington Booker T Benton Dr C C Bolen C E Eatonville Fla Fort Pierce Fla Fort Pierce Chronicle Hurston John Cornelius father Hurston Zora Neale birth and birthplace of Indian River Sheen Herbert Alder Marjorie Silver Backus A E “Beanie...

...This chapter presents a reading of Don Quixote. Topics covered include the novel as a travel chronicle; the women in the lives of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; the magic in Don Quixote's world; the presence of Cervantes in the novel; and criticisms about Spanish society...

... Sandys demonstrate that Elizabeth’s family tree properly included biblical ancestors. In the chronicle history cantos, Spenser, with a similar concern to capture Elizabeth’s essential nature, provided the queen with spiritually significant ancestors from pre-history and from invention. Awareness...

... to get a grip on current affairs one needs to know their histories as part of a general process of development. Once historicization—this automatic extrapolation of the past to the future—was acknowledged as a more modern form of thinking, an entire genre of historical writing, namely, the chronicle...

... to share their own family stories about kidney disease, organ donation, and other medical miracles. Some talked about the health problems that regrettably meant they could never donate. The chapter also mentions the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle's update to Deb's story, which launched quite...

...This chapter addresses Chaucer’s chief model for the writing of universal history: the early fourteenth-century Anglo-Norman chronicle of Nicholas Trevet. The first section sketches out the overall nature of Trevet’s world history, indicating its scope and showing what view it presents of English...

...This chapter discusses The Last Chronicle of Barset written by Anthony Trollope in line with interest-bearing capital and the displacement of affect. It explains how the technique of staggered retrospection, in turn, disrupts and problematizes Crawley's subjectivity...

... that socially mobile individuals of varied backgrounds converged on the writing of chronicles in order to negotiate for or within new social positions. Nouveau literacy, thus, is not about a rise in technical literacy among the Levantine populace, but about the acquisition of new cultural literacy. In short...

... is analyzed herein because of its depiction of love for sale, young love, and unrequited love happening in the Guajira desert. Another story discussed in this chapter is the Chronicle of a Death Foretold, which is a parody love story, García Márquez's darkest book so far. Caribbean García...

...This chapter explores concerns with memory in films about the disappearances in Chile and Argentina, which encompass thrillers, poetic, performative and animated documentaries, and surreal narratives: Imagining Argentina (2003), Chronicle of An Escape (2006...

... by Soviet rule in 1940, German Nazi occupation in 1941, and absolute Soviet control in 1944, clandestine action by Catholic clergy, social groups, and publishers (e.g., The Chronicle of the Catholic Church in Lithuania) kept the dream of Lithuanian independence alive. Nevertheless...

...This chapter describes the chronicle of Ramon Muntaner (Crònica), which focused on the history of the Crown of Aragon from the conception of King James I (1207) to the coronation of King Alfonse the Benign in Zaragoza (1328). The interest in this chronicle was primarily due...