of National Biography, 1899 Jane Beal, John Trevisa and the English Polychronicon (2012) – book examining Trevisa's rhetorical strategies to establish his own authority in his Polychronicon, a universal history of the world, with additional consideration of his letter to Lord Berkeley, "Dialogue between a Lord and a Clerk," and interpolated notes as well as his other translations. The final chapter considers the reception of the English Polychronicon in the Renaissance. Digital view of Trevisa's On The Properties of Things, from the British Library 1342 births 1402 deaths Medieval Cornish people Cornish-speaking people Writers from Cornwall Fellows of The Queen's College, Oxford Translators of the Bible into English Translators of the Bible into French 14th-century English Roman Catholic priests People from Berkeley, Gloucestershire