Eulogium (historiarum sive temporis): Chronicon ab orbe condito usque ad Annum Domini M.CCC.LXVI.
A monacho quodam Malmesburiensi exaratum

This three-volume fourteenth-century monastic chronicle of world history and geography, published between 1858 and 1863, illuminates the period's intellectual history.

F. S. Haydon (Edited by)

9781108042598, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

480 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.7 kg

The Eulogium is a world history from the Creation to 1366. The majority of the work is taken from earlier writers, many of whom are named. For the period 1356–66 the writer, probably Thomas, a monk of Malmesbury, provides an insight into the attitudes and opinions of his own time, and also into the historical sources available to a member of a large religious house. The work was obviously well regarded, as it survives in several manuscripts, two of which were continued by unknown authors, one to 1413 and one to 1490; these continuations are also included in this three-volume edition by Frank Scott Haydon (1822–87). Volume 2, published in 1860, contains Book 4 and half of Book 5. The former outlines world geography while the latter deals with early British history, from the first settlement to King Arthur and the Saxon migrations.

Preface
Liber quartus
Liber quintus.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]