Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds write by Jocelin (de Brakelond). This book was released on 1998. Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first English translation for forty years of a medieval classic, offering vivid and unique insight into the life of a great monastery in late twelfth-century England. The translation brilliantly communicates the interest and immediacy of Jocelin's narrative, and the annotation is particularly clear and helpful.
The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds, 1212-1301
The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds, 1212-1301 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds, 1212-1301 write by Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds. This book was released on 1964. The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds, 1212-1301 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey
Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey write by Thomas Arnold. This book was released on 1890. Memorials of St. Edmund's Abbey available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The History of the English People, 1000-1154
The History of the English People, 1000-1154 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of the English People, 1000-1154 write by Henry (of Huntingdon). This book was released on 2002. The History of the English People, 1000-1154 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and the establishment of Norman rule. His accounts of the kings who reigned during his lifetime--William II, Henry I, and Stephen--contain unique descriptions of people and events. Henry tells how promiscuity, greed, treachery, and cruelty produced a series of disasters, rebellions, and wars. Interwoven with memorable and vivid battle-scenes are anecdotes of court life, the death and murder of nobles, and the first written record of Cnut and the waves and the death of Henry I from a surfeit of lampreys. Diana Greenway's translation of her definitive Latin text has been revised for this edition.
The Chronicle of Andres
The Chronicle of Andres - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chronicle of Andres write by Abbot William of Andres. This book was released on 2017-12-08. The Chronicle of Andres available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Translated with Notes and Commentary by Leah Shopkow In 1220 Abbot William of Andres, a monastery halfway between Calais and Saint-Omer on the busy road from London to Paris, sat down to write an ambitious cartulary-chronicle for his monastery. Although his work was unfinished at his death, William’s account is an unpolished gem of medieval historical writing. The Chronicle of Andres details the history of his monastery from its foundation in the late eleventh century through the early part of 1234. Early in the thirteenth century, the monks decided to sue for their freedom and appointed William as their protector. His travels took him on a 4000 km, four-year journey, during which he was befriended by Innocent III, among others, and where he learned to negotiate the labyrinthine system of the ecclesiastical courts. Upon winning his case, he was elected abbot on his return to Andres and enjoyed a flourishing career thereafter. A decade after his victory, William decided to put the history of the monastery on a firm footing. This text not only offers insight into the practice of medieval canon law (from the perspective of a well-informed man with legal training), but also ecclesiastical policies, the dynamics of life within a monastery, ethnicity and linguistic diversity, and rural life. It is comparable in its frankness to Jocelin of Brakelord’s Chronicle of Bury. Because William drew on the historiographic tradition of the Southern Low Countries, his text also offers some insights into this subject, thus composing a broad picture of the medieval European monastic world.
