Chronicle
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Generally a chronicle (Latin chronica) is historical account of facts and events in chronological order. The typical examples of a Chronicle include: the chronicle of Jerome, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and the Chinese Annals of Spring and Autumn.
Scholars categorize the genre of chronicle into two subgroups: live chronicles, and dead chronicles. A dead chronicle is one where the author gathers his list of events up to the time of his writing, but does not record further events as they occur. A live chronicle is where one or more authors add to a chronicle in a regular fashion, recording contemporary events shortly after they occur. Because of the immediacy of the information, historians tend to value live chronicles over dead ones.
The term often refers to a book written by a chronicler in the Middle Ages describing historical events in a country, or the lives of a nobleman or a clergyman, although it is also applied to a record of public events. Various contemporary newspapers or other periodicals have adopted "chronicle" as part of their name.
List of notable chronicles
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- Annals of Spring and Autumn
- Kano Chronicle
- Russian Primary Chronicle
- Chronicon Slavorum
- Galician-Volhynian Chronicle
- Croyland Chronicle
- Chronicle of Henry of Livonia
- Chronicon Lethrense
- Sanguo Zhi
Chronicles are two canonical books of the Old Testament.
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