chronicles
Sequential event accounts
Chronicles are records of events arranged in order of time, typically covering historical or significant happenings: the chronicles of medieval England.
The word suggests ongoing documentation rather than a single account.
To chronicle something is to record it systematically: She chronicled her travels in a series of letters.
Chronicles often appears in titles of newspapers and historical works.
Year-by-year historical account
- scrollsRolled written records
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- archivesStored historical documents
- recordsStored data or albums
accounts · parchment · codices · monastic · antiquarian · inscription · palimpsest · papyrus
Extended heroic narrative
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- taleSpoken or written narrative
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
- narrationVerbal account delivery
recounting · legend · myth · lore · ballad · yarn · anecdote · prose
Ordered display of events
- epochsDistinct historical stretches
- erasNamed spans of history
- periodsSpans of time
- agesExtended time spans
centuries · decades · years · dates · sequence · progression · continuity · span
Place for storing things
- archiveStored historical records
- libraryBook collection or building
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- catalogueSystematic list of items
index · register · compendium · compilation · anthology · database · files · papers
Inherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- dynastySuccessive family rulers
- successionFollowing in order
posterity · descendants · forebears · tradition · patrimony · bloodline · remembrance · commemoration
annals
Year-by-year historical account
- scrollsRolled written records
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- archivesStored historical documents
records · accounts · parchment · codices · monastic · antiquarian · inscription · palimpsest · papyrus · vellum
saga
Extended heroic narrative
- epicImpressively grand in scope
- taleSpoken or written narrative
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
narration · recounting · legend · myth · lore · ballad · yarn · anecdote · prose · allegory
timeline
Ordered display of events
ages · centuries · decades · years · dates · sequence · progression · continuity · span · duration
repository
Place for storing things
catalogue · index · register · compendium · compilation · anthology · database · files · papers · documents
heritage
Inherited cultural legacy
succession · posterity · descendants · forebears · tradition · patrimony · bloodline · remembrance · commemoration · preservation
- Anglo-Saxon EnglandAnglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon, witenagemot, doom, Northumbria
- medieval RusKyiv, Kiev, Vladimir, boyars, Mongol invasion
- ancient historyancient history, ancient world, classical antiquity, ancient empires, Mesopotamia
- literary formsnovel, novels, novella, poetry, poetry collections
- written worksessay, novel, anthologies, history books, letter
- historicalhistorical fiction, period drama, war novels, biographies, memoirs
chronicleshides
Conceals or animal skins
conceals · suppresses · covers up · obscures · buries
chroniclesanalyzes
Examines in detail
interprets · editorializes · critiques · commentates · theorizes
- medieval chroniclesHistorical records from feudal era
- chronicles of narnia
- ancient chroniclesOld written event records
- Anglo-Saxon ChronicleMedieval English historical annals
- Primary ChronicleMedieval Kyivan historical record
- family chroniclesRecords of ancestral history