Chronica Monasterii de Melsa, a Fundatione usque ad Annum 1396

Published in 1866–8, this three-volume work is an important medieval chronicle of the Cistercian abbey of Meaux in Yorkshire.

Thomas de Burton (Author), E. A. Bond (Edited by)

9781108048637, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

578 pages, 1 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.84 kg

The Cistercian abbey of Meaux in Yorkshire was founded in 1150 as a daughter house of Fountains. Thomas de Burton (d.1437) was bursar in 1394 and abbot from 1396 to 1399. His chronicle survives in two versions: the earlier, finished around 1396, and a revision completed around 1402, to which later additions were made. The work is one of the most important later medieval Cistercian chronicles, providing detailed information about the history and administration of Meaux, as well as local and national historical events. The surviving library catalogue reveals the sources available to Burton, and he drew extensively on the abbey archives. The work is arranged by the rule of each abbot, with subdivisions in each section for local and more general history, arranged by subject matter. Volume 3 covers the years 1339–1406, including Burton's own abbacy, and contains the catalogue of books and other treasures of the abbey, an index and glossary.

Preface
Appendix to preface
Chronicle under Hugh of Leven, the fifteenth abbot
William of Dringhowe (his first abbacy)
John de Ryslay
Robert of Beverley, the sixteenth abbot
William of Dringhowe, the seventeenth abbot (his second abbacy)
William of Scarborough, the eighteenth abbot
Preface to the continuation of the chronicle
Thomas Burton, the nineteenth abbot
William Wendover, the twentieth abbot
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]