Galbert of Bruges' ""The Murder, Betrayal and Assassination of the
Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders"" is one of the most widely
read books of the Middle Ages. It recounts the assassination of
Charles, Count of Flanders, and the events leading up to and
following the murder. Galbert was a resident of Bruges and had
served in the count's administration for at least thirteen years by
the time of the assassination in 1127. He was well-acquainted with
Charles and many of the other actors in this drama, an eyewitness
to many of the events he relates, and exceptionally well positioned
to gather information about others. Galbert's chronicle takes the
form of a journal, the only one that exists from northwestern
Europe in the twelfth century. Edited by two of the world's most
prominent specialists on Galbert today, Jeff Rider and Alan V.
Murray, this book brings together essays by established scholars
who have been largely responsible for the radical changes in the
understanding of Galbert and his work that have occurred over the
last thirty years and essays by younger scholars. The essays are
written by British, Belgian, Dutch, German, Canadian, and American
scholars of literature and history, and are divided into four
sections - Galbert of Bruges at Work, Galbert of Bruges and the
Development of Institutions, Galbert of Bruges and the Politics of
Gender, and The Meanings of History. The book includes an extensive
bibliography of editions, translations, and studies of Galbert's
chronicle, and of works devoted to the reign of Charles the Good
and the Flemish Crisis of 1127-28, to the government and
institutions of Flanders in the age of Galbert, and to the
topography and history of medieval Bruges.
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