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History 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. It was written in 1198[
dubious –
discuss ] by
Jocelin of Brakelond , a
monk at the abbey.
John Gage Rokewode published an edition of the
Latin chronicle in 1840. An annotated translation was then published by
Thomas Edlyne Tomlins in 1844.
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 and
Diana Greenway & Jane E. Sayers's in 1989.
References
Citations
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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