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  2. Chronicle - Wikipedia

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    The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577–87) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan ...

  3. Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Wikipedia

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    The initial page of the Peterborough Chronicle [1]. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is a collection of annals in Old English, chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxons.. The original manuscript of the Chronicle was created late in the ninth century, probably in Wessex, during the reign of King Alfred the Great (r. 871–899).

  4. List of English chronicles - Wikipedia

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    A Short English Chronicle (1189–1465) Jean de Wavrin (–1471) William Worcester (1324–1468, 1491) Edward IV (1461–1470 and 1471–1483)

  5. Man's Search for Meaning - Wikipedia

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    Man's Search for Meaning is a 1946 book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose to each person's life through one of three ways: the completion of tasks, caring for another person, or finding meaning by facing suffering with dignity.

  6. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, ... Simpson published his memoir chronicling his years at the OED: ...

  7. Ekphrasis - Wikipedia

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    In the Republic, Book X, Plato discusses forms by using real things, such as a bed, for example, and calls each way a bed has been made a "bedness". He commences with the original form of a bed, one of a variety of ways a bed may have been constructed by a craftsman and compares that form with an ideal form of a bed, of a perfect archetype or image in the form of which beds ought to be made ...

  8. Nuremberg Chronicle - Wikipedia

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    The Nuremberg Chronicle is an illustrated encyclopedia consisting of world historical accounts, as well as accounts told through biblical paraphrase.Subjects include human history in relation to the Bible, illustrated mythological creatures, and the histories of important Christian and secular cities from antiquity.

  9. Historiography - Wikipedia

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    The Allegory On the Writing of History shows Truth (top) watching the historian write history, while advised by Wisdom (Jacob de Wit,1754). Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.