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The Chronicle and Historical Notes of Bernard Itier (Hardcover)
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The Chronicle and Historical Notes of Bernard Itier (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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Bernard Itier (1163-1225) was head librarian of the monastery of
Saint-Martial at Limoges. As such he had free access to the books
and made notations in many of them. The largest collection of these
notes comprises his chronicle: a history of the world from Creation
until his own time which, in part to conserve parchment, Bernard
entered in the margins of two earlier codices he had appropriated
for the purpose. The work includes a 'retrospective' section,
relative to the past, and a 'contemporaneous' section, similar to a
journal, in which Bernard recorded current or recent events which
struck his interest. His record is highly idiosyncratic, reflecting
the priorities of a monk who viewed the world from, and largely in
relation to, his monastery. Accordingly, despite what modern
historians consider to have been momentous changes in the kingdoms
and the church at the time, what most interested Bernard were the
affairs of his abbey, local events, miracles or other prodigies,
and instances of atypical violence. In his outlook, the kings and
pope were outsiders, and sometimes threatening. He does not mention
the conquests of Philip Augustus, and records with almost palpable
relief the death of Innocent III, who he had feared would impose an
unwelcome choice of abbot on his monastery. Andrew Lewis provides,
in Bernard's Latin and in English translation, the only complete
text of Bernard's chronicle ever published, and the fullest edition
of his historical notes from other manuscripts which complement the
chronicle.
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