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lived during the late thirteenth, early fourteenth centuries. He was an Englishman who took holy orders with the minor Gilbertines, a Puritan religious order. He wrote two major works: Handlyng Synne (first printed about 1303) and The Chronicl ....

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... ordinary English man or woman. Although Handlyng Synne and Chronicle are `translations' of other works, they are just as much Brunne's work as anyone else's. Handlyng Synne is a collection of moralistic tales, also known as epiphanies, meant to show the English the errors of their sinful life. Its intimate descriptions of daily life provides a fine social history of fourteenth-century England - it is far more history than literature. On the other hand, The Chronicle of England is an epic bildungsroman largely based on fiction and myth, and uses the works of Geoffrey Crayon, Franklin of Avalon, Geoffrey Monmouth, Wace, Shakespeare,Pier ...