The Chronicle of Adam Usk 1377-1421 [Hardcover]

Adam Usk's chronicle, covering the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, is one of the most personal and idiosyncratic of medieval chronicles. It offers an eyewitness account of the fall of Richard II, the turbulent politics of Rome between 1402 and 1406, and the Glyn Dwr revolt. It is also a record of the remarkable life and career of an author who suffered exile and excommunication before finding peace in his last years.

...Adam Usk was a gifted storyteller with an eye for the bizarre, an ear for a good anecdote. His chronicle can and will be read closely by serious students of the period, but also can, and should, be read simply for pleasure, an evocative portrait of a man and his times. --Albion