“That the detestable race of Satan, the Tartars, broke forth from their mountain-environed home, and piercing the solid rocks, poured forth like devils from the Tartarus, so that they are rightly called Tartari or Tartarians.”

About Matthew Paris

Chronicler • English

Matthew Paris was a Benedictine monk at St Albans Abbey in England during the 13th century. He is widely regarded as one of the most important English chroniclers and historians of the Middle Ages. His major work, the...