Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Edmunds

Not to be confused with the 13th-century Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds.

The Chronicle of the Abbey of St Edmunds is a chronicle concerning the history of the Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England, between the years 1173 and 1202.[1] It was written in 1198[2][dubious – discuss] by Jocelin of Brakelond, a monk at the abbey.[3]

John Gage Rokewode published an edition of the Latin chronicle in 1840.[4] An annotated translation was then published by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins in 1844.[5] Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present, contrasting medieval and modern culture, prominently featured Abbot Samson as presented by the Chronicle. Other editions include Ernest Clarke's in 1903[6] and Diana Greenway & Jane E. Sayers's in 1989.[7]

References

Citations

  1. ^ Froude (1891), pp. 294–308.
  2. ^ Scarfe (2010), p. 99.
  3. ^ Jane (1907).
  4. ^ Rokewode (1840).
  5. ^ Tomlins (1844).
  6. ^ Brakelond (1903).
  7. ^ Greenway & al. (1989).

Bibliography

  • Clarke, Ernest, ed. (1903), The Chronicle of Jocelin Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbott Samson, London: De La More Press.
  • Froude, J.A. (1891), Carlyle's Life in London, vol. I.
  • Greenway, Diana Eleanor; et al., eds. (1989), Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Jane, Lionel Cecil, ed. (1907), The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond Monk of St. Edmundsbury: A Picture of Monastic and Social Life on the XIIth Century, London: Chatto & Windus.
  • Rokewode, John Gage, ed. (1840), Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda de Rebus Gestis Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi [Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond on the Things Done by Samson Abbot of the Monastery of St Edmund] (in Latin), Camden Society.
  • Scarfe, Norman (2010), Suffolk in the Middle Ages: Studies in Places and Place-Names, the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Saints, Mummies and Crosses, Domesday Book, and Chronicles of Bury Abbey, Boydell Press.
  • Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne (1844), Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century as Exemplified in the Chronicles of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury, from A.D. MCLXXIII. to MCCII., London: Whittaker & Co.


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