Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis, by Thomas of Elmham, Formerly Monk and Treasurer of that Foundation

This incomplete history of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, was compiled around 1414, using the extensive documentary archive of the Cluniac house.

Thomas of Elmham (Author), Charles Hardwick (Edited by)

9781108042611, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

592 pages, 1 colour illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.4 cm, 0.86 kg

Thomas of Elmham (1364–1427?) was treasurer of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, when he compiled this work, which he called the Speculum Augustinianum, around 1414. He planned to give a complete history of the Abbey, and the chronological table covers the period from 597 to 1414, but the main text ends in 806, with a collection of documentary sources from the period 1066 to 1191 appended. His failure to complete the work was probably due to his appointment as Prior of the Cluniac House at Lenton in Nottinghamshire. Elmham made great use of documentary sources in the Abbey's famous library, reproducing and editing original charters, as well as using the work of earlier historians of the House, though, unfortunately, many of the sources he uses were forgeries or corrupt transcripts, produced to support the Abbey's claims to royal and ecclesiastical privileges. This edition by Charles Hardwick was published in 1858.

Introduction
Chronologia Augustinensis
Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis: 1. De fundatione
2. De dotatione
3. De Johanne Abbate
4. De Rufiniano Abbate
5. De Gratioso Abbate
6. De Petronio Abbate
7. De Nathanaele abbate sexto
8. De sancto Adriano abbate septimo
9. De sancto Albino Abbate
10. De Northbaldo abbate nono
11. De Aldhuno abbate decimo
12. De sancto Jamberto abbate decimo [sic]
13. De Ethelnoto abbate xii
14. De Guttardo Abbate
15. De Cunredo abbate xiv
43. De obitu Scotlandi abbatis xlii
44. De Widone abbate xliii
Privilegia concessa et confirmata, regnante Willelmo Conquestore
Privilegia concessa et confirmata, regnante Willelmo Rufo
Privilegia concessa et confirmata, regnante Henrico Primo
Privilegia concessa et confirmata, regnantibus Stephano, Henrico II, Ricardo I
Glossary
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]