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Eleanor of Provence: Virago
… astray. The most famous of these accounts is the Chronica Majora written by Matthew Paris. His accounts have been taken as the official history of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence by modern historians resulting in Eleanor being sidelined or labeled as a destabilizing factor in her husband’s …
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"Queen of All Islands": The Imagined Cartography of Matthew Paris's Britain
<p>In the middle decade of the thirteenth century, the Benedictine monk and historian Matthew Paris drew four regional maps of Britain. The monk's works stand as the earliest extant maps of the island and mark a distinct shift from the cartographic traditions of medieval Europe. Historians have …