Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis, by Thomas of Elmham, Formerly Monk and Treasurer of That Foundation

Name: Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis, by Thomas of Elmham, Formerly Monk and Treasurer of That Foundation
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ISBN: 9781108042611

ISBN-10: 1108042619

ISBN-13: 9781108042611

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Authors: Thomas of Elmham, Charles Hardwick

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Thomas of Elmham (1364-1427?) was treasurer of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, when he compiled this work, which he called the Speculum Augustinianum, around 1414. He planned to give a complete history of the Abbey, and the chronological table covers the period from 597 to 1414, but the main text ends in 806, with a collection of documentary sources from the period 1066 to 1191 appended. His failure to complete the work was probably due to his appointment as Prior of the Cluniac House at Lenton in Nottinghamshire. Elmham made great use of documentary sources in the Abbey's famous library, reproducing and editing original charters, as well as using the work of earlier historians of the…

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List price: $81.95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/15/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 592
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



Introduction


Chronologia Augustinensis


Historia Monasterii




De fundatione



De dotatione



De Johanne Abbate



De Rufiniano Abbate



De Gratioso Abbate



De Petronio Abbate



De Nathanaele abbate sexto



De sancto Adriano abbate septimo



De sancto Albino Abbate



De Northbaldo abbate nono



De Aldhuno abbate decimo



De sancto Jamberto abbate decimo [sic]



De Ethelnoto abbate xii



De Guttardo Abbate



De Cunredo abbate xiv



De obitu Scotlandi abbatis xlii



De Widone abbate xliii


Privilegia concessa et confirmata, regnante Willelmo Conquestore


Privilegia concessa et confirmata, regnante Willelmo Rufo


Privilegia concessa et confirmata, regnante Henrico Primo


Privilegia concessa et confirmata, regnantibus Stephano, Henrico II, Ricardo I


Glossary


Index