Authority Cited: Robert of Gloucester
Author name and dates: Robert of Gloucester (fl. c.1260–c.1300)
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BKG Bio-tweet: Historian; Chronicle ranges from fabulous to eye-witness accounts; SJ refers to his use of “shrew” as unisex
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: item 369 of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a facsimile edition, Fleeman, is 2. Robert of Gloucester's chronicle, 2 v. Oxon. 1724.]
Author name and dates: Robert of Gloucester (fl. c.1260–c.1300)
PORTRAIT
BKG Bio-tweet: Historian; Chronicle ranges from fabulous to eye-witness accounts; SJ refers to his use of “shrew” as unisex
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: item 369 of the Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, a facsimile edition, Fleeman, is 2. Robert of Gloucester's chronicle, 2 v. Oxon. 1724.]
- Robert of Gloucester’s Chronicle; 1724 edition by Hearne from Harleyan Library Manuscripts (Vol.1 260-270), Oxford, Printed at the Theater, per Watkins in Johnson and English Poetry before 1660 (108) based on lines quoted in the Dictionary "History of the English Language." lither (luther) is in the Dict. word list, and several instances of luther were found in an electronic search of the plain text version of the above edition of the Chronicle.
- Robert of Gloucester (no work cited); shrew (screwen) is in the Dict. word list, but the quote was not found in an electronic search of the above edition of the Chronicle.