Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- II.21 Gerald of Wales
- II.22 Jocelin of Brakelond, The Chronicle of the Deeds of Abbot Samson
- II.23 Scientific Teaching of the Twelfth Century
- II.24 Matthew Paris, The Major Chronicles: King John Offers His Kingdom to the Caliph of Morocco
- II.25 Magna Carta
- II.26 Roger de Montbegon: a Life in Administrative Documents
- II.27 Edmund of Abingdon
- II.28 The Study of Latin and Other Languages
- II.29 A Miracle Associated with St John of Beverley: a Boy Falls from the Minster Roof
- II.30 The 1297 Visitation of Chiswick Church by the Authorities of St Paul’s Cathedral
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
II.24 - Matthew Paris, The Major Chronicles: King John Offers His Kingdom to the Caliph of Morocco
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- Foreword
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Eleventh Century
- Twelfth Century
- Thirteenth Century
- II.21 Gerald of Wales
- II.22 Jocelin of Brakelond, The Chronicle of the Deeds of Abbot Samson
- II.23 Scientific Teaching of the Twelfth Century
- II.24 Matthew Paris, The Major Chronicles: King John Offers His Kingdom to the Caliph of Morocco
- II.25 Magna Carta
- II.26 Roger de Montbegon: a Life in Administrative Documents
- II.27 Edmund of Abingdon
- II.28 The Study of Latin and Other Languages
- II.29 A Miracle Associated with St John of Beverley: a Boy Falls from the Minster Roof
- II.30 The 1297 Visitation of Chiswick Church by the Authorities of St Paul’s Cathedral
- Fourteenth Century
- Fifteenth Century
- Select Bibliography for Volume II
- General Index
- Index of Passages Cited
Summary
Matthew Paris was a monk at St. Albans who was a chronicler and artist and cartographer who illustrated his own works. The Chronica Majora is his longest work, from which an excerpt is taken recounting the otherwise unattested meeting between king John’s envoys to Morocco and the Muslim Caliph to whom John wishes to hand over Britain. The Caliph is shocked, and unimpressed by the envoys’ description of Britain and of the king, and he refuses the offer.
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- The Cambridge Anthology of British Medieval Latin , pp. 241 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024