Legends, Tradition and History in Medieval England

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In this collection of essays, Antonia Gransden brings out the virtues of medieval writers and highlights their attitudes and habits of thought. She traces the continuing influence of Bede, the greatest of early medieval English historians, from his death to the sixteenth century. Bede's clarity and authority were welcomed by generations of monastic historians. At the other end is a humble fourteenth-century chronicle produced at Lynn with little to add other than a few local references. Contents Acknowledgements Preface List of Illustrations 1 Bede's Reputation as an Historian in Medieval England 2 Traditionalism and Continuity during the Last Century of Anglo-Saxon Monasticism 3 Legends and Traditions concerning the Origins of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds 4 Cultural Transition at Worcester in the Anglo-Norman Period 5 Prologues in the Historiography of Twelfth-Century England 6 The Growth of the Glastonbury Traditions and Legends in the Twelfth Century 7 Realistic Observation in Twelfth-Century England 8 The Chronicles of Medieval England and Scotland 9 The Cronica Buriensis and the Abbey of St Benet of Hulme 10 The Continuations of the Flores Historiarum from 1265 to 1327 11 The Alleged Rape by Edward III of the Countess of Salisbury 12 A Fourteenth-Century Chronicle from the Grey Friars at Lynn 13 The Date and Authorship of John of Glastonbury's Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie 14 Antiquarian Studies in Fifteenth-Century England Additional Notes to Chapters 6, 8 and 10 Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Index of Manuscripts