The Warenne (Hyde) Chronicle
ISBN: 9780199665204 | 0199665206
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 6/10/2013
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TheWarenne Chronicleis the more appropriate name for the Latin text known as the Hyde Chronicle. It covers the period from 1035 - the year in which Robert the Magnificent, duke of Normandy, died - up to the account of the White ship disaster in November 1120 when William Adelin, eldest son and heir of King Henry I, lost his life at the age of eighteen. The chronicle therefore covers the history of Normandy and England around the Norman Conquest of England with special reference to the earls of Warenne in Normandy. It is not a full blown dynasti... MORE
Introduction
i. The manuscript
ii. Date
iii. Author
iv. The Warennes: Family and Chronicle
v. Sources
vi. Historical Value
vii. The Edition
The Warenne Chronicle
Latin
Translation
Historical annotation
Appendix 1: The epitaph of Gundrada of Warenne
Appendix 2: Frederick, 'brother' of William I of Warenne
Appendix 3: Earl Hamelin and Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer
Bibliography
Elisabeth van Houts has published widely on Anglo-Norman history, medieval historiography, and the history of gender and women in the Middle Ages.
Rosalind Love has edited and written about a number of Latin saints' Lives from eleventh-century England, as well as publishing on the Latin authors of an earlier period, in particular the venerable Bede. She is also involved in a project focusing on glossed manuscripts of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy.
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