Ranulf Higdon

Ranulf Higdon (also called Higden ) (born towards 1299 in l´Ouest of l´Angleterre and deceased towards 1363) Chronique ur English is a and a Moine Bénédictin of the Monastère of Weburg Saint to Chester where he lived, according to him, during 64 years.

Biography

The principal chronicle d´Higdon is called Polychronicon (of its complete name Ranuiphi Castrensis, cognomine Higdon, Polychronicon (sive Historia Polycratica) ab.initio governed mundi usque AD mortem Edwardi III in septem libros dispositum ), a broad universal study d´histoire and of Théologie. Created to distract and inform the company of l´époque, this chronicle is the last d´une long series which ends with l´invention of l´ Imprimerie.

Its chronicle is divided into seven books (representing the seven days of the Genèse) of which the six first are a compilation various historical texts. Written in Latin, it is translated into English by John Trevisa in 1387 then printed for the first time by William Caxton in 1482.

In the last book of the chronicle, it defends l´idée according to which there exist seven kinds of people whose acts are very frequently recalled in the history and which it is important to study, namely:

• the prince, for the construction of the cities
• the knight, for the defense of those Ci
• the judge, for the l´évêque application of the rights
• , for the political correction of the crimes
• l´homme, for the organization of the public thing
• the Master in his house, for the management of the thing domesticates
• the monk, for the conquest of the hello

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