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)

9781108042604, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

668 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.7 cm, 0.97 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 3, published in 1863, contains the second half of Book 5, covering the period from the Saxons to the fourteenth century, together with the Kalendary Chronicle to 1364, the genealogies of the kings of England, the continuation to 1413, and an index.

Preface
Liber quintus
Chronicon brevis ab incarnatione usque ad Annum Domini M.CCC.LXIV.
Index auctoris
Continuatio Eulogii
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]