The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Observations of Thirteenth-Century Life

Vaughn's well received 1984 translation is here augmented with color reproductions of over 100 of the drawings in the manuscript. Paris's Latin chronicle, covering 1247-50, is valuable for its detail and its scope, noting and commenting on events all over Europe and the Near East as well as in London and Britain. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.