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Sir Frederick Madden (1801-73) was for thirty years Keeper of
Manuscripts at the British Library. His edition of the Latin text
of Matthew Paris' Historia Anglorum has never been superseded: as
Richard Vaughan wrote in 1958, 'it is one of the finest of all
those published in the Rolls Series, and it set a standard of
careful accuracy and profound scholarship which has seldom been
equalled since'. Matthew Paris, a monk at St Albans Abbey from 1217
to 1259, wrote and illustrated the single complete surviving
manuscript of this 'English History', which covers the years
1067-1253. Volume 2, covering the period 1189-1245, contains much
unique information, including transcripts of important documents
like the Magna Carta, which reveals Paris' wide range of interests
and unlimited curiosity, along with his very English conservatism
and suspicion of royal and papal authority.
Sir Frederick Madden (1801-73) was for thirty years Keeper of
Manuscripts at the British Library. His edition of the Latin text
of Matthew Paris' Historia Anglorum has never been superseded: as
Richard Vaughan wrote in 1958, 'it is one of the finest of all
those published in the Rolls Series, and it set a standard of
careful accuracy and profound scholarship which has seldom been
equalled since'. Matthew Paris, a monk at St Albans Abbey from 1217
to 1259, wrote and illustrated the single complete surviving
manuscript of this 'English History', which covers the years
1067-1253. He was an accomplished artist and a racy, indefatigably
curious and opinionated narrator of events. Volume 3, prefaced by a
biography of the author, contains the conclusion of the work from
1246 to 1253, and an abbreviated version composed by Paris himself.
Sir Frederick Madden (1801-73) was for thirty years Keeper of
Manuscripts at the British Library. His edition of Matthew Paris'
Historia Anglorum has never been superseded: as Richard Vaughan
wrote in 1958, 'it is one of the finest of all those published in
the Rolls Series, and it set a standard of careful accuracy and
profound scholarship which has seldom been equalled since'. Matthew
Paris, a monk at St Albans Abbey from 1217 to 1259, wrote and
illustrated the single complete surviving manuscript of this
'English History', which covers the years 1067-1253. The editor's
introduction to Volume 1 magisterially surveys the manuscript's
history and earliest editions of Paris' historical works. The Latin
text from 1069 to 1189 follows, and derives chiefly from the work
of Paris' predecessor at St Albans, Roger of Wendover, for its
coverage of the Norman and Angevin Kings of England.
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