The Historians of the Church of York and its Archbishops

This three-volume collection of documents, relating to York between the seventh and sixteenth centuries, was published between 1879 and 1894.

James Raine (Edited by)

9781108051569, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2012

634 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm, 0.92 kg

James Raine (1830–96), canon of York, edited in three volumes these Latin works relating to the diocese, covering the period from 650 to 1522. Volume 2, published in 1886, contains a twelfth-century history of the four bishops of York from 1070 to 1127 (with additions to 1153) by Hugh the Chantor, who was precentor of York. It is an important eyewitness source on the centuries-long dispute between York and Canterbury. There is also, on the same topic, a letter from Archbishop Ralph to the Pope, some anonymous lives of the twelfth-century bishops Thurstan and William FitzHerbert, some minor lives of St Oswald, and assorted letters. The unpublished part of a chronicle of the diocese by various authors, including Thomas Stubbs, covering the fourteenth century to the time of Cardinal Wolsey, completes the volume. English side-notes to the Latin text are provided throughout.

Preface
Vita sancti Oswaldi auctore Eadmero
Vita sancti Oswaldi auctore Senato
Vita sancti Oswaldi auctore anonymo
Vita sancti Oswaldi a Jo. Capgrave conscripta
History of four archbishops of York by Hugh the Chantor
Epistola Radulfi Archiepiscopi Cantuarensis
Epistola Simeonis ad Hugonem decanum Eboracensem
Vita Thurstini Archiepiscopi auctore anonymo
Vita sancti Willelmi auctore anonymo
Miracula sancti Willelmi
Lectiones in festo translationis sancti Willelmi
Miscellanea relating to Archbishop Scrope
Chronica pontificum ecclesiae Eboracensis
Chronicae metricae duae
Chronica de archiepiscopis Eboracensibus.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]