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Ranulf Higden d. c.1364, English chronicler. He wrote the Polychronicon, a universal history, interesting chiefly for its display of the geographical, scientific, and historical knowledge of its time. It was translated from Latin into English by John of Trevisa in 1387 and again by an anonymous translator in the early 15th cent. William Caxton printed (1482) Trevisa's translation plus several continuations to bring it to 1460.

Bibliography: See study by J. Taylor (1966).

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Higden, Ranulf (d. 1364), a Benedictine of St Werburg's, Chester, credited by popular tradition with the composition of the Chester Cycle of mystery Plays. He wrote in Latin prose Polychronicon, a universal history extending down to 1327, which was translated by John of Trevisa in 1387 and printed by Caxton in 1482.

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