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The Deeds of the Bishops of England [Gesta Pontificum Anglorum] by William of Malmesbury (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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The Deeds of the Bishops of England [Gesta Pontificum Anglorum] by William of Malmesbury (Paperback, Annotated Ed)
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First modern English translation of important source for English
church history from Augustine's arrival in Canterbury in 597 down
to the 1120s. William was born c.1095 not far from Malmesbury in
Wiltshire; he entered the monastery at Malmesbury as a boy, and
stayed there as a monk for the rest of his life, writing works
which were to win him lasting fame as a historian. His Deeds of the
Bishops of England chronicles the activities of the bishops in all
the dioceses of England from Augustine's arrival in Canterbury in
597 down to the 1120s when the work was being written; in addition
to bishops and cathedrals, William also includes saints who were
not bishops, and religious houses other than cathedrals. For the
period after Bede's death in 730, it is the most important single
source for English church history, and indeed, together with
William's other great achievement, the Deeds of the Kings of
England, for the history of England. Much of the material William
retells in his own style, and with considerable narrative skill,
from earlier sources available to him in the monastic library. But
he also travelled widely in England, and the organisation of the
Deeds reflects a clear chronological and topographical order, from
Canterbury and Rochester to London, East Anglia and Wessex, north
to York, Lindisfarne and Durham, thence to Mercia, and finally,
"returning home after a long journey", to his own abbey of
Malmesbury and St Aldhelm.
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