Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World: Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066–c.1250

287 Pages·2018·46.027 MB·English

by  Laura Cleaver, Andrea Worm

Writing History in the Middle Ages
Volume 6
Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World
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Writing History in the
Anglo-Norman World
Manuscripts, Makers and
Readers, c.1066–c.1250
Edited by Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm
YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements xi
List of Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1
Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm
1 Did the Purpose of History Change in England in the Twelfth
Century? 7
Michael Staunton
2 England’s Place within Salvation History: An Extended Version of
Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae in London, British Library,
Cotton MS Faustina B VII 29
Andrea Worm
3 Computus and Chronology in Anglo-Norman England 53
Anne Lawrence-Mathers
4 A Saint Petersburg Manuscript of the Excerptio Roberti Herefordensis
de Chronica Mariani Scotti 69
Gleb Schmidt
5 Autograph History Books in the Twelfth Century 93
Laura Cleaver
6 Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum in Anglo-Norman
England 113
Laura Pani
7 Durham Cathedral Priory and its Library of History, c. 1090–c. 1150 133
Charles C. Rozier
8 King John’s Books and the Interdict in England and Wales 149
Stephen Church
9 Artistic Patronage and the Early Anglo-Norman Abbots of
St Albans 167
Kathryn Gerry
10 Matthew Paris, Cecilia de Sanford and the Early Readership of the
Vie de Seint Auban 189
Laura Slater
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Contents
11 New Readers, Old History: Gerald of Wales and the Anglo-
Norman Invasion of Ireland 213
Caoimhe Whelan
Bibliography 233
Index of Manuscripts 263
General Index 267
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Illustrations
Plates I–V (between pp. 132 and 133)
I: Augustine of Canterbury and Pope Gregory the Great, beginning
of the line of the archbishops of Canterbury, chronicle added to Peter
of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS
Faustina B VII fol. 59r © The British Library Board.
II: Heptarchy, Matthew Paris, Genealogy of English Kings from King
Alfred onwards, Chronica majora. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College,
MS 26 fol. IVv © The Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge.
III: Abbot Richard, Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, London,
British Library, Cotton MS Nero D I fol. 36v © The British Library Board.
IV: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 177 fol. 52r © The Board of Trinity
College Dublin.
V: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 177 fol. 52v © The Board of Trinity
College Dublin.
Andrea Worm, England’s Place within Salvation History: An
Extended Version of Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae in
London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII
Fig. 1: Days of Creation. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina
B VII fol. 44r © The British Library Board. 37
Fig. 2: Adam and Eve, beginning of Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium
historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 45r
© The British Library Board. 38
Fig. 3: Crucifixion of Christ, end of Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium
historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 51v
© The British Library Board. 39
Fig. 4: Peter, beginning of the line of the popes, chronicle added to
Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton
MS Faustina B VII fol. 52v © The British Library Board. 40
Fig. 5: Lucius, king of the Britons, beginning of the line of the kings
of England, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae.
London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 53v © The
British Library Board. 42
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Illustrations
Fig. 6: Beginning of Anglo-Saxon rule in England and diagram of the
heptarchy, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae.
London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 62v © The
British Library Board. 44
Fig. 7: Alfred the Great, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’
Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina
B VII fol. 63r © The British Library Board. 45
Fig. 8: William, duke of Normandy and king of England, transition of
rule from the Anglo-Saxon to the Norman kings, chronicle added to
Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton
MS Faustina B VII fols. 66v–67r © The British Library Board. 46
Fig. 9: Heptarchy, Matthew Paris, Genealogy of English Kings from
King Alfred onwards, Abbreviatio chronicorum Angliae. London, British
Library, Cotton MS Claudius D VI fol. 10v © The British Library Board. 51
Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Computus and Chronology in Anglo-
Norman England
Fig. 1: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 3 14 fol. 132r © The
Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 63
Gleb Schmidt, A Saint Petersburg Manuscript of Excerptio Roberti
Herefordensis de Chronica Mariani Scotti
Fig. 1: Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, MS Lat. O. IV 1
fols. 98v–99r © National Library of Russia. 74
Fig. 2: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 3 14 fol. 148v © The
Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 84
Fig. 3: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 5 19 fol. 22v © The
Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 85
Fig. 4: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 3 14 fol. 147r © The
Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 86
Fig. 5: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 5 19 fol. 20r © The
Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 87
Laura Cleaver, Autograph History Books in the Twelfth Century
Fig. 1: Leiden, University Library, MS BPL 20 fol. 15r © Leiden
University Library. 96
Fig. 2: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Lat. 5506A fol. 6r
© Bibliothèque nationale de France. 98
Fig. 3: Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 157 p. 390 (detail). By
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Illustrations
permission of the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford. 101
Fig. 4: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 503 fol. 60r © The Board of Trinity
College Dublin. 104
Fig. 5: London, British Library, Royal MS 14 C II fol. 88r © The British
Library Board. 108
Fig. 6: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 582, f. 181v © The
Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 110
Laura Pani, Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum in Anglo-
Norman England
Fig. 1: London, British Library, Royal MS 13 A XXII fol. 2v © The
British Library Board. 118
Fig. 2: London, British Library, Royal MS 12 C IV fol. 44v © The British
Library Board. 121
Fig. 3: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 247, fol. 45r © The
Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 128
Charles C. Rozier, Durham Cathedral Priory and its Library of
History, c. 1090–c. 1150
Fig. 1: Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.ii.4 fol. 1r, reproduced by
kind permission of the Chapter of Durham Cathedral. 141
Fig. 2: Durham, Cathedral Library, MS B.iv.24 fol. 1r, reproduced by
kind permission of the Chapter of Durham Cathedral. 143
Kathryn Gerry, Artistic Patronage and the Early Anglo-Norman
Abbots of St Albans
Fig. 1: Theft from the Tomb of St Cuthbert, Oxford, University
College, MS 165, p. 163 © The Master and Fellows of University
College Oxford. 181
Fig. 2: The Life of St Alexis, St Albans Psalter, Hildesheim,
Dombibliothek MS St Godehard 1, p. 57. Property of the Basilica of St
Godehard, Hildesheim. 185
Laura Slater, Matthew Paris, Cecilia de Sanford and the Early
Readership of the Vie de Seint Auban
Fig. 1: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 177 fol. 38v © The Board of Trinity
College Dublin. 206
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Illustrations
Caoimhe Whelan, New Readers, Old History: Gerald of Wales and
the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland
Fig. 1: London, British Library, Additional MS 40674 fol. 98r © The
British Library Board. 225
Fig. 2: London, British Library, Additional MS 40674 fol. 106r © The
British Library Board. 226
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