Eulogium (historiarum sive temporis): Chronicon ab orbe condito usque ad Annum Domini M.CCC.LXVI.

A monacho quodam Malmesburiensi exaratum

F S Haydon editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:15th Nov '12

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Eulogium (historiarum sive temporis): Chronicon ab orbe condito usque ad Annum Domini M.CCC.LXVI. cover

This three-volume fourteenth-century monastic chronicle of world history and geography, published between 1858 and 1863, illuminates the period's intellectual history.

Written in the 1360s, with later additions, the Eulogium provides an insight into the attitudes and opinions of the period, and also into the historical sources available to a member of a large English religious house. This three-volume edition of the monastic chronicle was published between 1858 and 1863.The Eulogium is a world history from the Creation to 1366. The majority of the work is taken from earlier writers, many of whom are named. For the period 1356–66 the writer, probably Thomas, a monk of Malmesbury, provides an insight into the attitudes and opinions of his own time, and also into the historical sources available to a member of a large religious house. The work was obviously well regarded, as it survives in several manuscripts, two of which were continued by unknown authors, one to 1413 and one to 1490; these continuations are also included in this three-volume edition by Frank Scott Haydon (1822–87). Volume 1, published in 1858, contains the author's preface, and the first three books, covering the period from the Creation to Christ, the history of the popes, and ancient history.

ISBN: 9781108042581

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 30mm

Weight: 780g

536 pages