• Ranulf Higden or Higdon (c. 1280–1363 or 1364) was an English chronicler and a Benedictine monk who wrote the Polychronicon, a Late Medieval magnum opus...
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  • (1099–1153), Anglo-Norman baron Ranulf de Glanvill (died 1190), Anglo-Norman chief Justiciar of England Ranulf Higdon (or Higden) (c. 1280 – 1364), English...
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  • Higden is a town in Arkansas. Higden may also refer to: Henry Higden (fl. 1693), English poet and dramatist Ranulf Higden (c. 1280–1364), English chronicler...
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  • laureate at a ceremony in Rome. 1357 – The Polychronicon concludes, Ranulf Higden having ceased work on it at least a dozen years earlier. 1360 – The...
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    blemmyes, with their genitals explicitly drawn. Another example is the Ranulf Higden map (ca. 1363), which bears an inscription regarding the headless in...
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  • forms the introduction to his 1387 translation of the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, commissioned by Trevisa's patron, Lord Berkeley. Written in Middle...
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    characters (1524) in English books; and his 1495 version of Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden was the first English work to use movable type to print music. These...
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    Devizes (fl. late 12th century), William of Newburgh (1136–1198) and Ranulf Higden (c. 1280–1363 or 1364). The latter were mainly influenced by their revulsion...
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    He translated into English for his patron the Latin Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, adding remarks of his own, and prefacing it with a Dialogue on Translation...
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  • meanings of the Latin adjective: A 15th century English translation of Ranulf Higden mentions the arte trivialle, referring to the trivium of the Liberal...
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    account produced the image of Harthacnut as a "very generous bon viveur". Ranulf Higden (14th century) viewed the same detail in a negative light. He claimed...
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  • Muktabai, Maharashtrian sant and Abhang poet (died 1297) c. 1280 – Ranulf Higden, English chronicler and Benedictine monk (died 1364) 1283 (approximate)...
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    widely circulated medieval English educational works, Polychronicon by Ranulf Higden, a few years later. Both these works, with Adam of Bremen as a possible...
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    (before 1241), Vincent of Beauvais (1250s), Roger Bacon (c. 1260), Ranulf Higden (before 1352, and the first to misname him "Oliver") and the English...
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    Oxford's foundation date is unknown. In the 14th century, the historian Ranulf Higden wrote that the university was founded in the 10th century by Alfred...
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    Victor had described the world as being the shape of Noah's Ark, and Ranulf Higden world maps were oval. A standard way of describing the Earth was to...
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    endorsed by antiquarians and scholars during the middle ages, including Ranulf Higden, John Leland, and William Camden (1551–1623). In the late 17th century...
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  • March – Scottish Parliament rejects Edward's right to rule Scotland. Ranulf Higden completes the Polychronicon, a work of world history. 1365 Parliament...
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    and the castle were overrun in 1147 by Hywel Sais, son of Lord Rhys. Ranulf Higden, in his Polychronicus, records the Flemings as extinct in Pembrokeshire...
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    somewhat later mappae mundi that accompany the popular Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden should probably be viewed as degenerate forms of the earlier complex...
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    [In Wales,] Valeys bryngeþ forþ food, And hilles metal riȝt good — Ranulf Higden (c. 1280–1364), Polychronicon, Gold was mined as early as the Roman...
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    tenth-century European ruler and peasant". For example, in 1352, he enquired of Ranulf Higden regarding the latter's own Polychronicon. Ormrod estimates Edward to...
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    Chester Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester (1170–1232) Ranulf Higden (c. 1280–1364), chronicler John Pearson,...
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    original authorship of the Chester cycle is sometimes attributed to Ranulf Higden, otherwise known as Roger of Chester, a much-respected historian of...
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  • only an allusion to one of its principal sources, the Polychronicon of Ranulf Higden, but also a pun on Grey's surname, as the Norman French word gree meant...
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    mundi (c.1110), the 13th-century Ebstorf map, and the 14th-century Ranulf Higden world map. Many mariners' portolan charts tipped their hat to classical...
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  • his sources, which included The Brut, Bede, William of Malmesbury, Ranulf Higden, Henry of Huntingdon and numerous others, as well as records of the...
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  • those by Marianus Scotus, Martinus Polonus, Henry of Huntingdon and Ranulf Higden. Thomas was important in promulgating the stories that had become associated...
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  • Al-Nuwayri, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (1314–33) Ranulf Higden, Polychronicon (c.1344) Conrad of Megenberg, Buch der Natur (c.1349)...
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    of Great Britain by the Benedictine monk Matthew Paris, World Map by Ranulf Higden, a Venetian hand-written re-creation of Claudius Ptolemy's Geographia...
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