Chronicle is a
written record of events presented in order of time, and
updated
regularly over a prolonged period. The chroniclers of the Middle Ages, from the
compilers of King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (9th to 12th centuries)
onward, tended to mix legend and rumour with fact in their accounts.
Significant chronicles in the later Middle Ages include those of Matthew Paris
(St Albans, late 13th century) and the accounts of the wars against the English
written by the French chronicler Jean Froissart (late 14th century). Raphael
Holinshed and his collaborators published in 1577 the Chronicles of England,
Scotland, and Ireland which were adapted by
Shakespeare and other dramatists in their chronicle plays.