This two-volume work was published as part of the Rolls Series
between 1889 and 1895. A history of England, it deals principally
with the period from 1066 until the death of author Henry Knighton
around 1396. An introductory section of material largely drawn from
Ranulf Higden adds what Knighton describes as necessary context to
the recounting of the Norman Conquest. Volume 1 covers the period
up to 1336, just before the start of the Hundred Years' War. It
begins with the last century of Anglo-Saxon rule - an age of
murders, treachery and 'evil times' - and covers the Norman period
and the Plantagenets, culminating in the murder of Edward II. As
editor, Joseph Rawson Lumby (1831-95) has been criticised for
oversights, errors and omissions. Nevertheless, his detailed
contents and marginalia make the Latin text more accessible to the
modern reader.
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