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William Of Malmesbury (Notes by J. A. Giles) William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England. from the Earliest Period to the Reign of King Stephen With Notes and Illustrations by J. A. Giles
London George Bell and Sons 1904 Very Good
Xvi, 244, [6 advertising] pages, frontispiece, cloth, very good. Editors preface: "But the translation of Mr. Sharpe has by no means been reprinted verbatim. Within the last ten years a valuable edition of the original text, with copious collations of MSS. , has been published by the English Historical Society. This edition has been compared with the translation, and numerous passages retouched and improved. Some charters, also, have been added, and a large number of additional notes appended at the foot of the pages, together with a few other improvements and additions calculated to render this interesting history more acceptable to the reading public. " From the Wikipedia website: "William of Malmesbury (c. 1080/1095-c. 1143) , English historian of the 12th century, was born about the year 1080/1095, in Wiltshire. His father was Norman and his mother English. He spent his whole life in England, and his adult life as a monk at Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire, England. ~ He is lauded by many, including John Milton, to be one of the best English historians of his time, and remains known for strong documentation and his clear, engaging writing style. A strong Latin stylist, he shows literary and historiographical instincts which are, for his time, remarkably sound. He is an authority of considerable value from 1066 onwards; many telling anecdotes and shrewd judgments on persons and events can be gleaned from his pages. Some scholars criticize him for his atypical annalistic form, calling his chronology less than satisfactory and his arrangement of material careless. Much of William's work on Wulfstan, Bishop of Worchester is thought to derive from a first hand account from Coleman a contemporary of Wulfstan, merely translating the document from Old English into Latin. William's works are still considered invaluable, and despite these shortcomings, William of Malmesbury remains one of the most celebrated English chroniclers of the twelfth century. " M999C; 244 pages
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