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Front Matter -- Copyright Page /Amos Edelheit -- Dedication /Amos Edelheit -- Preface /Amos Edelheit -- Acknowledgements /Amos Edelheit -- Introduction /Amos Edelheit -- Sigla /Amos Edelheit -- Giovanni Caroli Liber dierum lucensium The Book of My Days in Lucca /Amos Edelheit -- Liber Primus /Amos Edelheit -- Liber Secundus /Amos Edelheit -- Liber Tertius /Amos Edelheit -- Commentary /Amos Edelheit -- Book One /Amos Edelheit -- Book Two /Amos Edelheit -- Book Three /Amos Edelheit -- Back Matter -- Bibliography /Amos Edelheit -- Index Nominum et Rerum /Amos Edelheit.

Ranulf Higden (d.1364) was a monk at the abbey of St Werburgh in Chester. His most important literary work is this universal chronicle, which survives in over a hundred Latin manuscripts, testifying to its popularity. The earliest version of it dates from 1327, but Higden continued writing until his death, expanding and updating the text. It was also continued in other monastic houses, most importantly by John Malvern of Worcester. The English translation made by John Trevisa in the 1380s was also widely circulated and is included in this work, published in nine volumes for the Rolls Series between 1865 and 1886. The chronicle shows how fourteenth-century scholars understood world history and geography. Volume 2 contains the remainder of Book 1, on the description of Britain, and twenty-eight chapters of Book 2, on the early history of the world to the reign of Saul in Israel

"George Buchanan (1506-82) was one of the most distinguished humanists of the Northern European Renaissance. Hailed by his contemporaries as the greatest Latin poet of his age, he is chiefly remembered today as a radical political theorist whose Dialogus, first published in Edinburgh in 1579, justified the deposition of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1567 on the basis of a theory of popular sovereignty, which vested in the people the right to resist, depose and kill tyrannical monarchs. Dedicated to his pupil James VI, whose violent reaction against his tutor's ideas led him to develop his own views on the divine right of kings, Buchanan's work nevertheless proved immensely influential both in Britain and on the Continent, making a notable contribution to the debates over the nature and location of sovereignty which would finally bear fruit in the writings of John Locke. This new edition, featuring facing-page Latin text and English translation, is accompanied by extensive notes and commentary on Buchanan's classical and contemporary sources and a detailed introduction that examines the development of Buchanan's political thought, the context in which the Dialogus was written and published, and an extended analysis of the text itself."--Provided by publisher.