Citations:chronist

English citations of chronist

a chronicler

• 1842, Johannes von Müller, The History of the World: from the Earliest Period to the Year of Our Lord 1783: With Particular Reference to the Affairs of Europe and Her Colonies, page 255:

  As the productions of Spanish authors are subjected to six censorships; as nothing is allowed to pass through the press without having been examined by the synodal examiner, the chronist of Castile, an official, a royal secretary, the ...

• 1973, Annales internationales de criminologie

  available written documents belong to Spanish “chronists”, who wrote them during the conquest itself, as personal witnesses of what was taking place. Other “chronists” came to Peru soon after the conquest, and still had the advantage of ...

• 2003, Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality, and Colonization, University of Michigan Press (→ISBN), page 93:

  Mexican chronists such as Chimalpain and Ixtlilxochitl is what the 93 Spanish chronists had some difficulties in understanding ( or at least in sorting out in a way that would still be satisfactory for today's reader ) : The that both Spanish and  ...

• 2007, Benjamin Jokisch, Islamic Imperial Law: Harun-al-Rashid's Codification Project, Walter de Gruyter (→ISBN), page 355:

  234 It is not very probable that the story as a whole was invented . Certainly the Orthodox chronists , usually opposed to Hellenism , 233 had no reason to display Byzantine superiority to Islam in the field of profane sciences . Furthermore we ...

• 2009, Benjamin Robinson, The Skin of the System: On Germany's Socialist Modernity, Stanford University Press (→ISBN), page 131:

  The chronists, who have none of the Muses' obligation to Apollo's formal realism, recount the contest by taking Marsyas' side while accepting the humiliation of his fate—such public laceration being, after all, part and parcel of the “artist's ...

specifically, the chronicler of Chronicles

• 1875, A Critical and Exegitical Commentary on the Book of Psalms, page 510:

  והדוה instead of which the chronist has ותפארת במקדשו (6) […]

• 1883, The Sidereal Messenger: A Monthly Review of Astronomy, page 232:

  The chronist, who is a devoui Christian, and sees in war and pestilence only […] The marks of care and accuracy are visible throughout the whole of the Chronicle; and of most of the events the chronist himself was an eye-witness.

• 1890, The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, page 412:

  Having thus indicated the objects which the king-writer and the chronist had respectively before them, we are now in a position to suggest an explanation of the omission of any account of the captivity of Manasses in the Book of Kings.