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William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella - The Contemporary History (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
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William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella - The Contemporary History (Hardcover, 2 Rev Ed)
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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The Historia Novella is a key source for the succession dispute
between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda which brought England
to civil war in the twelfth century. William of Malmesbury was the
doyen of the historians of his day. His account of the main events
of the years 1126 to 1142, to some of which he was an eyewitness,
is sympathetic to the empress's cause, but not uncritical of her.
Edmund King offers a complete revision of K. R. Potter's edition of
1955, retaining only the translation, which has been amended in
places. Not only is this a new edition but it offers a new text,
arguing that what have earlier been seen as William of Malmesbury's
final revisions are not from his hand. Rather they seem to come
from somewhere in the circle of Robert of Gloucester, the empress's
half-brother, to whom the work is dedicated. In this way the work
raises important questions concerning the transmission of medieval
texts.
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