The Chiang Mai Chronicle by David K. Wyatt

Really good and historical correct films, and for which they first build a big historical city. The most famous king in the Southern Thailand lived by Bangkok around year 1600, and of whom there now over the last 5 years have been made 3 films and 2 more will follow. Mangrai is looked on as being the most famous king in Northern Thailand. The CMC was printed I 1996 as this was the 700 years anniversary for the year when Chiang Mai was founded by the King Mangrai.

That's why most people in hundred of years thought that The Iliad was only a story without reality until a German person who had another idea went out searching and then found Troya. Now the CMC are more like a historical calendar than are these other mentioned historical chronicles which are more like legends, or novels, with personal stories and action. These other chronicles are told and written many hundred of years ago, the Danish Chronicle for example in back the year 1185, while the Chiang Mai Chronicle (CMC) first was made in 1828. And as I'm born in Denmark therefore of course I own a copy of Saxo Grammaticus: 'The Danish Chronicle' (The Danish History), the Vikings sagas from Iceland, and of course The Iliad and The Odyssey. It includes both people whom we might think of as conservative and royalist and those who usually are thought of as non-conforming.I bought this book because I live in Chiang May and ever since I was child I have been interested in history, and especially concerning places which I'm connected to.

The author touches upon political and religious thought, but also upon such “artistic” thought as that demonstrated in novels, paintings, and historical writing. Collected here is a valuable historical sampling of these new ideas from the many different regions of what we think of today as Thailand. Wyatt muses about these pieces of history, revealing some of the creative thinking that has been going on in the minds of ordinary and nameless people as well as great and well-known thinkers in Siam for the past thirteen hundred years.Ī variety of new thought - political, religious, and artistic - has arisen in all sorts of contexts: warfare, trade, administration, and farming, to name a few. It is a series of informal sketches, gleaned over years of historical research and stored away for rumination and reflection by one of the foremost historians of Thailand. This slim volume takes the reader on a fascinating stroll through Thailand’s intellectual history - the thoughts of the people of Siam, and the products of their thought, through history.

The Chiang Mai Chronicle by David K. Wyatt