Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Monastic Life in the Thirteenth Century

by Matthew Paris, Richard Vaughn (Editor)

English, Latin (translation)

286 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

born perhaps 1200
died 1259

From the Creation, Chronica Majora of Matthew Paris, English monk and chronicler, traced the history of the world to 1259.

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At this same time a sort of mannikin, eighteen years old, John by name, was found in the Isle of Wight. He was not a dwarf, for his limbs were of just proportions; he was hardly three feet tall but had ceased to grow.
The queen ordered him to be taken around with her as a freak of nature to arouse the astonishment of onlookers. The length of his tiny body is sixteen times that of this line. At the same time a male child was born, begotten it was said by a demon, on the Welsh border in the earl of Hereford's territories. Within half a year his teeth were full grown and he was as tall as a youth of about seventeen. His mother was taken ill after the birth, pined away, and died miserably. Both of these were freaks of nature, the latter exceeding man's natural size, the former not attaining it.