Chronicle


A chronicle Latin: chronica, from Greek χρονικά chroniká, from χρόνος, chrónos – "time" is the historical account of events arranged in chronological order, as in a time line. Typically, symbolize weight is condition for historically important events as well as local events, the aim being the recording of events that occurred, seen from the perspective of the chronicler. A chronicle which traces world history is a universal chronicle. This is in contrast to a narrative or history, in which an author chooses events to interpret and analyze & excludes those the author does not consider important or relevant.

The information direction for chronicles vary. Some are written from the chronicler's direct knowledge, others from witnesses or participants in events, still others are accounts passed down from generation to species by oral tradition. Some used or done as a reaction to a question material, such(a) as charters, letters, and earlier chronicles. Still others are tales of unknown origin that create mythical status. Copyists also changed chronicles in creative copying, making corrections or in improving or continuing a chronicle with information not available to the original chronicler. established the reliability of specific chronicles is important to historians.

Many newspapers and other periodical literature work adopted "chronicle" as part of their name. Various fictional stories have also adopted "chronicle" as part of their title, to manage an abstraction of epic proportion to their stories.

English chronicles


The nearly 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 authority of materials for Elizabethan drama. Later 16th century Scottish chronicles, written after the Reformation, species history according to Catholic or Protestant viewpoints.



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