The Last of the Old English Saints
Godric settled at Finchale in 1122, two years after the wreck of the White Ship, and dwelt there for sixty years.…
The National Character of the English Church
The spiritual side of this revival was closely bound up with its national side. All the foreign influences which the Norman Conquest had brought to bear upon the English Church ha…
Renewed Veneration of Anglo-Saxon Saints
One of the most striking signs of the times was the renewed reverence for those older English saints whose latest successor was striving to bury himself in the woodlands of S.…
Revival of Saints’ Lives and Historical Writing
Literary activity was re-awakened by the same impulse. Two successive precentors of Canterbury, Osbern and Eadmer, worked up into more elaborate biographies the early memorials of…
The Worcester Scriptorium and the English Chronicle
There was one cathedral monastery in the west of England where the traditions of a larger historical sentiment had never died out.…
The Chronicle Continued at Peterborough
In the middle of Henry I’s reign, the monks of Peterborough, probably in consequence of the loss of their own records in a fire which destroyed their abbey in 1116, borrowed a cop…
Florence of Worcester and Latin Historiography
Precious as it is, this English chronicle-work at Peterborough was a mere survival; half its pathetic interest springs from the fact that it stands utterly alone, for, save in tha…
Influence and Legacy of Florence’s Chronicle
While the last English chronicle lay isolated and buried in the scriptorium at Peterborough, it was through the Latin version of Florence that the national and literary tradition…
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