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

Edited by Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm

Introduction: Making and Reading History Books in the Anglo-Norman World Did the Purpose of History Change in England in the Twelfth Century? - Michael Staunton England's Place within Salvation History: An Extended Version of Peter of Poitiers' Compendium Historiae in London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII - Andrea Worm Computus and Chronology in Anglo-Norman England - Anne Lawrence-Mathers A Saint Petersburg Manuscript of Excerptio Roberti Herefordensis de Chronica Mariani Scotti - Gleb Schmidt Autograph History Books in the Twelfth Century - Laura Cleaver Paul the Deacon's Historia Langobardorum in Anglo-Norman England - Laura Pani Durham Cathedral Priory and its Library of History, c. 1090 - c. 1150 - Charles C. Rozier King John's Books and the Interdict in England and Wales - Stephen D. Church Artistic Patronage and the Early Anglo-Norman Abbots of St Albans - Kathryn Gerry Matthew Paris, Cecilia de Sanford and the Early Readership of the Vie de Seint Auban - Laura Slater New Readers, Old History: Gerald of Wales and the Anglo-Norman Invasion of Ireland - Caoimhe Whelan Bibliography