In its general scope and design, Chronicles is not so much historical as didactic.

The historical content of Shakespeare's play is drawn from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, which in turn borrows from Boece's 1527 Scotorum Historiae, which flattered the antecedents of Boece's patron, King James V of Scotland.

Yitzakh Magen argues that the version of Chronicles is perhaps closer to the historical truth, and that the Assyrian settlement was unsuccessful, a notable population remained in Samaria, part of which, following the conquest of Judah, fled south and settled there as refugees.

They are sometimes also divided into such categories as Sifrei Emet ( ספרי אמת, literally " Books of Truth ") of Psalms, Proverbs and Job ( the Hebrew names of these three books form the Hebrew word for " truth " as an acrostic, and all three books have unique cantillation marks ), the " wisdom books " of Job, Ecclesiastes, and Proverbs, the " poetry books " of Psalms, Lamentations and Song of Songs, and the " historical books " of Ezra-Nehemiah and Chronicles.

It exists mainly as a mixture of mythological stories and historical legends recorded in local annals such as the Chronicles of Huayang compiled in the Jin Dynasty ( 265 – 420 ), and oral literature such as the folk stories of Emperor Duyu 杜宇 who lost his kingdom and died a miserable death.

* Bernard Cornwell is one of today's best-known historical novelists, with his Sharpe and The Warlord Chronicles.

Margaret Douglas plays a significant role in the historical fiction series the Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett.

Golding was also very interested in historical works and translated many, such as, Leonardo Bruni ’ s History of the War Against the Goths, Froissart ’ s Chronicles in Sleidan ’ s epitome, and Aesop ’ s fables.

As with the Lymond Chronicles, the series features a number of historical persons, many as important characters.

Both the historical and fictional characters are, however, taken from a wider variety of occupations and social classes than in the Lymond Chronicles.

These books provide background information to historical characters and events featured in the Lymond Chronicles and The House of Niccolò, as well as explanations of classical allusions and literary and other quotations used in the two series, notes to sources of these citations, and many maps.

This is a part of the Babylonian Chronicles, which are concise, factual accounts of historical events, and are therefore considered to be very reliable, although not very informative.

Films based on British historical events ; RMS Titanic, Piracy in the Caribbean, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Great Escape, historical people ; William Wallace, Lawrence of Arabia, King Arthur, Elizabeth I, British stories ; The Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, James Bond, The Chronicles of Narnia, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Treasure Island, The War of the Worlds among many others, while British video game Tomb Raider featuring English archaeologist Lara Croft, has been made into feature films.

Chronicles contained a range of historical and literary accounts ; one notable example is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle which contains various heroic poems inserted throughout.

One of the earliest historical references to Dalkeith is found in the Chronicles of Jean Froissart.

The Warlord Chronicles, a historical fiction trilogy of books, places the site of Mount Badon at Solsbury Hill.

* Chronicle: Medieval historical histories, like those in: Category: Chronicles

Chronicles edited by Kogălniceanu and Costache Negruzzi were the source of inspiration for several historical novelists, beginning with Alexandru Odobescu.

* Much of the information about the original school comes from the historical reviews compiled on significant anniversaries of the school for the three issues of The Chronicles of Erasmus Hall High School, 1906, 1906 – 1937, and 1937 – 1987 ( New York: New York City Board of Education, 1906, 1937, 1987 ); National Register nomination form for Erasmus Hall Museum, prepared by Betty Ezequelle and Stephen Lash, 1973 ; and Marian Miller, “ Erasmus Hall H. S.

* The Starbuck Chronicles, a series of historical novels by Bernard Cornwell

He translated, at the King's desire, Froissart's Chronicles ( 1523 – 1525 ), in such a manner as to make distinct advance in English historical writing, and the Golden Book of Marcus Aurelius ( 1534 ); also The History of Arthur of Lytell Brytaine ( Brittany ), and the romance of Huon of Bordeaux.

Francis Crawford of Lymond is a fictional character created by the novelist Dorothy Dunnett, and the central figure in The Lymond Chronicles, six complex historical novels set in 16th century Europe.

by J. Stevenson, Maitland Club, Edinburgh, 1836 ); the Black Prince, a poem by the poet Chandos Herald, composed about 1386, and relating the life of the Black Prince from 1346-1376 ( re-edited by Francisque Michel, London and Paris, 1883 ); and, lastly, the different versions of the Brutes, the form and historical importance of which have been indicated by Paul Meyer ( Bulletin de la Société des anciens textes français, 1878, pp. 104 – 145 ), and by F. W. D. Brie ( Geschichte und Quellen der mittelenglischen Prosachronik, The Brute of England or The Chronicles of England, Marburg, 1905 ).

As compared with Samuel and Kings, the Book of Chronicles omits many particulars there recorded and includes many things not found in the other two documents.

The most important English chronicles are the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, started under the patronage of King Alfred in the 9th century and continued until the 12th century, and the Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland ( 1577 – 87 ) by Raphael Holinshed and other writers ; the latter documents were important sources of materials for Elizabethan drama.

Yep's most notable work is his series, the Golden Mountain Chronicles, which documents the story of the fictional Young family from 1849, in China, to 1995, in America.

Arrived at this stage of development, the Annals now began to lose their primitive character, and henceforward became more and more indistinguishable from the Chronicles, though the term was still used for many documents, such as the Annals of Waverley.

Hence David researched documents of Prussian history, and started to write his Prussian Chronicles (" Preußische Chronik ") from ca.

The Annals of Ulster documents the Viking invasions one year after the common starting event of the Viking Period, the raiding of Lindisfarne in 793, as mentioned by the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.

The Chronicles of Mann were written at Rushen Abbey, as were many other important documents relating to the island.

Portrait of Oswald ( lower right ), Epitome of Chronicles, Matthew Paris, early 13th century

Chronicles of the 12th and 13th century record frequent expeditions of Novgorodians to Yugra to collect tribute in sable, ermine, Arctic fox, and squirrel furs.

Early record of the Wójcik surname may be found in the Chronicles of Little Poland ( 13th c .) We learn the knight Wójcik was a companion of King Wladyslaw of Poland and a member of his bodyguard.

Chronicles formerly believed to have been of the 13th century are now mainly regarded as forgeries.

In the medieval Islamic world ( 13th century ), universal history in this vein was taken up by Muslim historians such as Ta ' rīkh-i jahān-gushā ( History of the World Conqueror ) by Ala ' iddin Ata-Malik Juvayni, Jami al-Tawarikh (" Compendium of Chronicles ") by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani ( now held at the University of Edinburgh ) and the Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun.

* The secondary / parallel world ( s ) is entered through a portal from the primary world ( e. g. Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia, His Dark Materials, Xanth, The Dark Tower, and Avantasia )

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

* the son of Hananiah, a descendant of king David of Israel through Solomon ( 1 Chronicles )

Chronicles, including the Mahawansa, the Dipavamsa, the Culavamsa and the Rajaveliya, record events from the beginnings of the Sinhalese monarchy in the 6th century BC ; through the arrival of European Colonialists in the 16th century ; and to the disestablishment of the monarchy in 1815.

… if you consider the Historical Playes of Shakespeare, they are rather so many Chronicles of Kings, or the business many times of thirty or forty years, crampt into a representation of two hours and a half, which is not to imitate or paint Nature, but rather to draw her in miniature, to take her in little ; to look upon her through the wrong end of a Perspective, and receive her Images not onely much less, but infinitely more imperfect then the life: this instead of making a Play delightful, renders it ridiculous.

* Monkeystone Games planned to release Keen Chronicles through Softek International in April 2002.

* Chronicles the Toronto rave scene through flyers and music

Ramon Muntaner's Crònica is one of the four Catalan Grand Chronicles through which the historian views thirteenth-and fourteenth century military and political matters in the Crown of Aragon and Catalonia.

Ezekiel's ell, by which he gave measurements in his guided vision through a future Jerusalem Temple, is thus one sixth larger than the standard ell, for which an explanation seems to be suggested by the Book of Chronicles ; the Chronicler writes that Solomon's Temple was built according to " cubits following the first measure ", suggesting that over the course of time the original ell was supplanted by a smaller one.

The Fowlerville Chronicles, self-published in 2010 by Marion Cornett, follows the history of Fowlerville from the arrival of Ralph Fowler in 1836 through 2010.

Spurred by the success of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning House Made of Dawn, Native American literature showed explosive growth during this period, known as the Native American Renaissance, through such novelists as Leslie Marmon Silko ( e. g., Ceremony ), Gerald Vizenor ( e. g., Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles and numerous essays on Native American literature ), Louise Erdrich ( Love Medicine and several other novels that use a recurring set of characters and locations in the manner of William Faulkner ), James Welch ( e. g., Winter in the Blood ), Sherman Alexie ( e. g., The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven ), and poets Simon Ortiz and Joy Harjo.

The Lymond Chronicles is a series of six novels, set in mid-sixteenth century Europe and the Mediterranean, which follows the life and career of a Scottish nobleman, Francis Crawford of Lymond, from 1547 through 1558.

Caleb, son of Jephunneh, first mentioned in the above account ( Numbers 13: 6 ) is not to be confused with another Caleb, great-grandson of Judah through Tamar ( 1 Chronicles 2: 3-9 ).

Since then, it has also made a couple of single-episode plays from its Companion Chronicles line available for exclusive download through Doctor Who Magazine.

Jair was the son of Segub, the son of Hezron the Jew through the daughter of Machir ( 1 Chronicles 2 ).

There are currently five more games set in the same world: Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates, a prequel for Nintendo DS, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, a sequel for the Wii, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time for the Nintendo DS and Wii, and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord direct sequels for Wii released through the WiiWare download service.

The Bionicle story is set in a science fantasy world and is primarily told through the book series, Bionicle Chronicles, Bionicle Adventures, and Bionicle Legends as well as through comic books published by DC Comics.

In the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting, the campaign setting used by Paizo Publishing's Pathfinder products, driders are not drow punished by any deity but have instead been punished by other drow through a method known as " fleshcrafting.

The Chronicles may have originated as a report to the papal legate William of Modena, to whom he was assigned as interpreter in 1225 through 1227.