Richard II in Thomas Walsingham's Chronicles
Richard II in Thomas Walsingham's Chronicles
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托马斯·沃尔辛厄姆编年史中的理查二世
作者：
G. Stow
英格兰国王理查德二世（1377- 1399年在位）死后既不享有幸福的名声，也不享有健康的名声。对他的性格和政府的传统看法，如果不是轻蔑的话，也是充满敌意的。然而，近年来，历史学家开始质疑这一观点。他们在当代编年史家，特别是兰开斯特派作家的作品中发现了对国王的不友好和毫无根据的偏见的起源。由于其巨大的重要性和影响力，圣奥尔本斯修道院的许多编年史，尤其是托马斯沃尔辛厄姆的编年史，被挑出来特别指责。
King Richard II of England (1377-99) has enjoyed neither a happy nor a wholesome posthumous reputation. The traditional view of his character and government is largely hostile, if not contemptuous.' In recent years, however, historians have begun to question this view. They have detected in the work of contemporary chroniclers, especially Lancastrian authors, the genesis of an unfriendly and unfounded bias against the king. Because of their enormous importance and influence, the many chronicles of St. Albans abbey, above all those by Thomas Walsingham, have been singled out for particular blame.2