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Medieval English Historiography

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6th C.

  • Gildas.  De Exercitio et Conquestu Britaniae

8th C.

  • Bede.  De Temporibus (Chronica Minora)
  • —-.  Ecclesiastical History
  • —-.  Chronica Maiora

9th C.

  • Asser.  The Life of King Alfred
  • Nennius.  Historia Brittonum

11th C.

  • Guy of Amiens.  Carmen de Hastingae Proelio

12th C.

  • Geoffrey of Monmouth.  Historia Regum Brittaniae
  • Gerald of Wales.  Description of Wales
  • —-.  The History and Topography of Ireland
  • —-.  Journey through Wales
  • Henry of Huntington.  Historia Anglorum
  • Jocelyn de Brakelond.  Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds
  • Jordan Fantosme.  Chronicle  
  • The Life of Christina of Markyate
  • Wace.  Roman de Brut
  • —-.  Roman de Rou
  • William of Malmesbury.  Gesta Regum Anglorum
  • William of Newburgh.  Historia de Rebus Anglicis

13th C.

  • Matthew Paris.  Chronica Majora (parts)
  • Peter Langtoft.  Chronicle
  • Vitae Duorum Offarum

14th C.

  • Adam Usk.   Chronicle
  • Jean Froissart.   Chronicles
  • Lanercost Chronicle
  • Ranulf Higden.  Polychronicon
  • Robert Mannyng.  Chronicle
  • Thomas Walsingham.  Chronica Maiora
  • Wigmore Abbey Chronicles

15th C.

  • Pesudo-Ingulf.  Croyland Chronicle

Secondary

  1. Breen, Kathy, Imagining an English Reading Public
  2. Camp, Cynthia.  Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives as History Writing in Late Medieval England
  3. Dobson, R.B.  Church and Society in the Medieval North of England (chapter 13)
  4. Galloway, Andrew.  “Writing History in England.”  In The Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
  5. Given-Wilson, Chris.  Chronicles:  The Writing of History in Medieval England
  6. —-.  Chronicles of the Revolution, 1397-1400:  The Reign of Richard II
  7. Gransden, Antonia, Historical Writing in England
  8. —-.  Legengs, Tradition and History in Medieval England.
  9. Harbus, Antonia.  Helena of Britain in Medieval Legend
  10. Justice, Stephen.  Adam Usk’s Secret
  11. Kennedy, Edward D.  Chronicles and other Historical Writings
  12. Marchant, Alicia.  The Revolt of Owain Glyndŵr in Medieval English Chronicles
  13. McKisack, May.   Medieval History in the Tudor Age
  14. McLaren, Mary-Rose.  The London Chronicles of the 15th C.:  A Revolution in English Writing
  15. Radulescu, Raluca and Edward Kennedy.  Broken Lines:  Genealogical Literature in Late-medieval Britain and France
  16. Rouse, Robert.  The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England in Middle English Romance
  17. Smalley, Beryl.  English Friars and Antiquity in the Early 14th C.
  18.  Spiegel, Gabrielle.  The Past as Text:  The Theory and Practice of Medieval Historiography
  19. Spence, John.  Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles
  20. Spencer, Andrew.  Nobility and Kingship in Medieval England
  21. Turville-Petre, Thorlac.   England the Nation:  Language, Literature and National Identity, 1290-1340
  22. Vaughan, Richard.  Matthew Paris

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