Synopses & Reviews
The first translation of the Waltham Chronicle is printed here with the original Latin text and full introduction and notes. Written by one of the secular canons of Waltham Priory, this interesting example of a twelfth-century historia fundacionis records the legends of the community's foundation and miracle stories, together with genuine historical information.
Review
"...Edited to the high standards of the Oxford Medieval Texts series...will prove valuable to anyone interested in twelfth-century monastic reorganization...an example of ideal editing of medieval manuscripts."--Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies