Robert Mannyng of Brunne Essay (281 words)
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Robert Mannyng of Brunne lived during the late thirteenth and 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 Chronicle of England, produced in his old age in 1338. Brunne translated both…