Ricardi de Cirencestria Speculum Historiale de Gestis Regum Angliae - Volume 2
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Paperback / Softback
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Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
ISBN-10
1108046991
ISBN-13
9781108046992
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Nov 15th, 2012
Print length
632 Pages
Weight
930 grams
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15.20 x 22.90 x 4.20 cms
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British & Irish historyEuropean history
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Richard of Cirencester (c.1335–1400) was a Benedictine monk at Westminster whose Latin history narrates the story of England from the legendary accession of Vortigern in 447 up to Harold II in 1066. Volume 2, edited by John E. B. Mayor (1825–1910), was published in 1869.
Richard of Cirencester (c.1335–1400) wrote his Latin history of the deeds of the English kings while he was a Benedictine monk at St Peter's, Westminster. His work is largely unoriginal and derivative of other historians, but it does contain valuable information about Westminster Abbey, as well as a full account of the saints whose tombs were to be seen in the abbey church. The fourth (and last) book concentrates solely on the reign and deeds of Edward the Confessor. Although Richard expresses an intention to continue his story in a fifth book, beginning with William the Conqueror, there is no evidence that he ever did so. This second volume, published in 1869, includes a lengthy preface by editor John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor (1825–1910) in which he discusses the work De situ Britanniae, once attributed to Richard, and establishes that it is in fact an eighteenth-century forgery.
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