Gesta abbatum monasterii Sancti Albani
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- October 2013
- November 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781139206754
- 9781108046831
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- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.83kg, 568 Pages
- Subjects:
- British History 1066-1450, History, Religion, Church History
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- British History 1066-1450, History, Religion, Church History
Volume 2: AD 1290–1349
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Book description
Between 1863 and 1876, the Rolls Series published several works about the abbey of St Albans, edited by Henry Thomas Riley (1816–78) under the rubric 'Chronica monasterii S. Albani'. This account of the achievements of its abbots was compiled and enlarged by Thomas Walsingham (c.1340–c.1422), who supervised the scriptorium at St Albans until 1394, and wrote several other historical works. It appeared in three volumes between 1867 and 1869. The early part of the Gesta reworks earlier accounts including that by Matthew Paris (d.1259), but the section covering 1308–93 was composed by Walsingham himself and is an important primary source for fourteenth-century English history. Volume 2, covering 1290–1349, records events that include a fire in the abbot's chamber and a visit to the papal court. The main text is in Latin, with English side-notes, but a rule for nuns appears in Anglo-Norman.
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