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The Waltham Chronicle

An Account of the Discovery of Our Holy Cross at Montacute and Its Conveyance to Waltham

Marjorie Chibnall editor Leslie Watkiss editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:13th Oct '94

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The Waltham Chronicle is an interesting example of a twelfth-century historia fundacionis. Written by one of the secular canons of Waltham just after the refoundation of the house as an Augustinian priory (later abbey) in 1177, it records the legends of the original foundation and miracle stories, together with historical information about the pre-Conquest benefactors and the internal organization of the community. Its value is much more than that of a local history, because of its connection with the literary romances of Harold Godwineson, the religious context of the theology of the Cross, and the general movement to replace sector colleges by houses of regular Benedictine monks or Augustinian canons. This is the first published translation, printed with the original text editied from the two manuscripts containing the Chronicle, with full introduction, historical notes and apparatus criticus, by Leslie Watkiss and Marjorie Chibnall.

this excellent new edition, with a full introduction, is no less welcome because the contents are familiar * John Blair, Ecclesiastical History, Volume 50, No 3 July 1999 *
Stubbs produced a Latin edition in 1861 which has been the only available full version: this new parallel-text edition is welcome indeed. The editors have done away with Stubbs's 'corrections' of spelling and have doubled his number of identified biblical quotations. ... interesting volume ... a pleasing and worthy addition to Oxford Medieval Texts. * Rosalind Ransford, Medium Aevum, LXV.I *

ISBN: 9780198221647

Dimensions: 222mm x 144mm x 17mm

Weight: 332g

156 pages