Robert Mannyng Of Brunne
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lived during the late thirteenth, early fourteenth
centuries. He was an Englishman who took holy orders with the minor
Gilbertines, a Puritan religious order.
He wrote two major works: Handlyng Synne (first printed about 1303) and The
Chronicle of England, produced in his old age in 1338. Brunne t ....
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.... as much Brunne's work as anyone else's.
Handlyng Synne is a collection of moralistic tales, also known as
epiphanies, meant to show the English the errors of their sinful life. Its
intimate descriptions of daily life provides a fine social history of
fourteenth-century England - it is far more history than literature. On the
other hand, The Chronicle of England is an epic bildungsroman largely based
on fiction and myth, and uses the works of Geoffrey Crayon, Franklin of
Avalon, Geoffrey Mo ....
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