Matthew Paris Quotes
Foul as it is, Hell itself is defiled by the fouler presence of John.
Matthæus Parisiensis
Matthew Paris, ~1200—1259, , Benedictine Monk &, English Chronicler, Characterization of King John —John Lackland—the Signer of the Magna Carta, Historia Anglorum, Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine, July/August 2015
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Matthew Paris, also known as Matthew of Paris (Latin: Matthæus Parisiensis, lit. "Matthew the Parisian"; c. 1200 – 1259), was an English Benedictine monk, chronicler, artist in illuminated manuscripts and cartographer, based at St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. He wrote a number of works, mostly historical, which he scribed and illuminated himself, typically in drawings partly coloured with watercolour washes, sometimes called "tinted drawings". Some were written in Latin, some in Anglo-Norman or French verse.
