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Wide Angles and Zoom Lenses
Medieval chronicles showed Christians their place in God's world, from Creation to the end.
James D. Smith III | posted 10/01/2001 12:00AM
When people think of medieval history, they might think of legends about saints (see Great Lessons from "Bad" History, page 22) or entries such as these from the Annals of St. Gall:
710. Hard year and deficient in crops.
712. Great flood.
714. Pippin, Mayor of Palace, died.
718. Charles Martel devastated Saxony with great destruction.
Contrast those sparse lines with this passage from medieval chronicler Ordericus Vitalis:
"When [William the Conqueror's son] Robert heard about this he was terrified. Seeing disasters all around him, he was brought low and forced to beg for mercy from the unconquered king [Henry I]. The stern king, however, remembering all the wrongs Robert had committed, resolved to hunt him down with a huge army, and press the attack until he recognized that he was beaten and submitted entirely to the king's judgment.
"Robert, driven to despair by his wretched fate, took the advice of friends and went out to meet the king as he approached the town, confessed his treason, ... To view this item, you must be a member of ChristianHistory.net.
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