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2 unusual facts about Robert Mannyng


Robert Manning

Robert Mannyng (1275–1338), monk and pioneer of recording English oral history

Robert Mannyng

Handlyng Synne (1303) is a twelve thousand line devotional or penitential piece, written in Middle English rhymed couplets, deriving many of its exempla from the Anglo-Norman Manuel des Peches of William of Waddington.


1330s in poetry

Robert Mannyng (born 1275), Middle English, French and Latin writer in England

Peter Langtoft

Langtoft's Chronicle was the source of the second part of Robert Mannyng's Middle English Chronicle, completed around 1338.


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