Writing History in the Middle Ages Volume 6 Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Sussex Library, on 26 Jul 2018 at 19:32:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442894 9781903153802.indd 1 22/03/2018 09:29 YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS York Medieval Press is published by the University of York’s Centre for Medieval Studies in association with Boydell & Brewer Limited. Our objective is the promotion of innovative scholarship and fresh criticism on medieval culture. We have a special commitment to interdisciplinary study, in line with the Centre’s belief that the future of Medieval Studies lies in those areas in which its major constituent disciplines at once inform and challenge each other. Editorial Board (2018) Professor Peter Biller (Dept of History): General Editor Professor T. 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Other volumes in the series are listed at the back of this book. 9781903153802.indd 2 22/03/2018 09:29 Writing History in the Anglo-Norman World Manuscripts, Makers and Readers, c.1066–c.1250 Edited by Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm YORK MEDIEVAL PRESS Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Sussex Library, on 26 Jul 2018 at 19:32:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442894 9781903153802.indd 3 22/03/2018 09:29 © Contributors 2018 All rights reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 2018 A York Medieval Press publication in association with The Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope Avenue, Rochester, NY 14620–2731, USA website: www.boydellandbrewer.com and with the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York ISBN 978 1 903153 80 2 A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library The publisher has no responsibility for the continued existence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate This publication is printed on acid-free paper Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Sussex Library, on 26 Jul 2018 at 19:32:49, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442894 9781903153802.indd 4 22/03/2018 09:29 Contents List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements xi List of Abbreviations xii Introduction 1 Laura Cleaver and Andrea Worm 1 Did the Purpose of History Change in England in the Twelfth Century? 7 Michael Staunton 2 England’s Place within Salvation History: An Extended Version of Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae in London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII 29 Andrea Worm 3 Computus and Chronology in Anglo-Norman England 53 Anne Lawrence-Mathers 4 A Saint Petersburg Manuscript of the Excerptio Roberti Herefordensis de Chronica Mariani Scotti 69 Gleb Schmidt 5 Autograph History Books in the Twelfth Century 93 Laura Cleaver 6 Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum in Anglo-Norman England 113 Laura Pani 7 Durham Cathedral Priory and its Library of History, c. 1090–c. 1150 133 Charles C. Rozier 8 King John’s Books and the Interdict in England and Wales 149 Stephen Church 9 Artistic Patronage and the Early Anglo-Norman Abbots of St Albans 167 Kathryn Gerry 10 Matthew Paris, Cecilia de Sanford and the Early Readership of the Vie de Seint Auban 189 Laura Slater Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Sussex Library, on 26 Jul 2018 at 19:40:46, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442894 9781903153802.indd 5 22/03/2018 09:29 Contents 11 New Readers, Old History: Gerald of Wales and the Anglo- Norman Invasion of Ireland 213 Caoimhe Whelan Bibliography 233 Index of Manuscripts 263 General Index 267 vi Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Sussex Library, on 26 Jul 2018 at 19:40:46, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442894 9781903153802.indd 6 22/03/2018 09:29 Illustrations Plates I–V (between pp. 132 and 133) I: Augustine of Canterbury and Pope Gregory the Great, beginning of the line of the archbishops of Canterbury, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 59r © The British Library Board. II: Heptarchy, Matthew Paris, Genealogy of English Kings from King Alfred onwards, Chronica majora. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 26 fol. IVv © The Master and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. III: Abbot Richard, Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero D I fol. 36v © The British Library Board. IV: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 177 fol. 52r © The Board of Trinity College Dublin. V: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 177 fol. 52v © The Board of Trinity College Dublin. Andrea Worm, England’s Place within Salvation History: An Extended Version of Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium Historiae in London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII Fig. 1: Days of Creation. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 44r © The British Library Board. 37 Fig. 2: Adam and Eve, beginning of Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 45r © The British Library Board. 38 Fig. 3: Crucifixion of Christ, end of Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 51v © The British Library Board. 39 Fig. 4: Peter, beginning of the line of the popes, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 52v © The British Library Board. 40 Fig. 5: Lucius, king of the Britons, beginning of the line of the kings of England, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 53v © The British Library Board. 42 vii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Sussex Library, on 26 Jul 2018 at 20:08:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442894 9781903153802.indd 7 22/03/2018 09:29 Illustrations Fig. 6: Beginning of Anglo-Saxon rule in England and diagram of the heptarchy, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 62v © The British Library Board. 44 Fig. 7: Alfred the Great, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fol. 63r © The British Library Board. 45 Fig. 8: William, duke of Normandy and king of England, transition of rule from the Anglo-Saxon to the Norman kings, chronicle added to Peter of Poitiers’ Compendium historiae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Faustina B VII fols. 66v–67r © The British Library Board. 46 Fig. 9: Heptarchy, Matthew Paris, Genealogy of English Kings from King Alfred onwards, Abbreviatio chronicorum Angliae. London, British Library, Cotton MS Claudius D VI fol. 10v © The British Library Board. 51 Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Computus and Chronology in Anglo- Norman England Fig. 1: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 3 14 fol. 132r © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 63 Gleb Schmidt, A Saint Petersburg Manuscript of Excerptio Roberti Herefordensis de Chronica Mariani Scotti Fig. 1: Saint Petersburg, National Library of Russia, MS Lat. O. IV 1 fols. 98v–99r © National Library of Russia. 74 Fig. 2: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 3 14 fol. 148v © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 84 Fig. 3: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 5 19 fol. 22v © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 85 Fig. 4: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 3 14 fol. 147r © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 86 Fig. 5: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Auct. F 5 19 fol. 20r © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 87 Laura Cleaver, Autograph History Books in the Twelfth Century Fig. 1: Leiden, University Library, MS BPL 20 fol. 15r © Leiden University Library. 96 Fig. 2: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS Lat. 5506A fol. 6r © Bibliothèque nationale de France. 98 Fig. 3: Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 157 p. 390 (detail). By viii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Sussex Library, on 26 Jul 2018 at 20:08:17, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442894 9781903153802.indd 8 22/03/2018 09:29 Illustrations permission of the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 101 Fig. 4: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 503 fol. 60r © The Board of Trinity College Dublin. 104 Fig. 5: London, British Library, Royal MS 14 C II fol. 88r © The British Library Board. 108 Fig. 6: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 582, f. 181v © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 110 Laura Pani, Paul the Deacon’s Historia Langobardorum in Anglo- Norman England Fig. 1: London, British Library, Royal MS 13 A XXII fol. 2v © The British Library Board. 118 Fig. 2: London, British Library, Royal MS 12 C IV fol. 44v © The British Library Board. 121 Fig. 3: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 247, fol. 45r © The Bodleian Libraries, The University of Oxford. 128 Charles C. Rozier, Durham Cathedral Priory and its Library of History, c. 1090–c. 1150 Fig. 1: Durham, Cathedral Library, MS A.ii.4 fol. 1r, reproduced by kind permission of the Chapter of Durham Cathedral. 141 Fig. 2: Durham, Cathedral Library, MS B.iv.24 fol. 1r, reproduced by kind permission of the Chapter of Durham Cathedral. 143 Kathryn Gerry, Artistic Patronage and the Early Anglo-Norman Abbots of St Albans Fig. 1: Theft from the Tomb of St Cuthbert, Oxford, University College, MS 165, p. 163 © The Master and Fellows of University College Oxford. 181 Fig. 2: The Life of St Alexis, St Albans Psalter, Hildesheim, Dombibliothek MS St Godehard 1, p. 57. Property of the Basilica of St Godehard, Hildesheim. 185 Laura Slater, Matthew Paris, Cecilia de Sanford and the Early Readership of the Vie de Seint Auban Fig. 1: Dublin, Trinity College, MS 177 fol. 38v © The Board of Trinity College Dublin. 206 ix Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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