Thomas Walsingham's Chroncia Maiora

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A strange tale from the year 1343...

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Abduction, surgery, madness: an account of a little red man in Thomas Walsingham's Chronica...

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This article examines the inclusion of the supernatural and mythological in Thomas Walsingham's Chroncia Maiora.