Thomas of Eccleston

Thomas of Eccleston

Thomas of Eccleston was a thirteenth century English Franciscan chronicler. He is known for "De Adventu Fratrum Minorum in Angliam". It runs from 1224, when Franciscan friars first came to England, under Agnellus of Pisa, to about 1258. He styles himself simply "Brother Thomas" and John Bale seems to have first given him the title "of Eccleston".

Life

He appears to have entered the order about 1232-3 and to have been a student at Oxford between 1230 and 1240. After the latter year he was stationed at the convent in London, but he does not appear to have ever held any office in the order.

The chronicle

The "De Adventu" is a collection of notes rather than a finished work. Incidentally it throws some light on the trend of early Franciscan events and thought in general.

Eccleston declares that he spent twenty-six years collecting material for his chronicle, most of the information it contains being derived from personal knowledge or verbal communication, although he seems to have had access to certain wrtten documents now lost. He describes vividly what has been called the heroic period of the Franciscan movement in England. In spite of the absence of dates and of any chronological sequence and of its tendency to extol the English province above all others, his chronicle is accurate and reliable in all that concerns the establishment and spread of the Friars Minor in England.

Editions

Four manuscripts of the "De Adventu", all of which go back to one lost archetype, are known to scholars. The chronicle has been often edited; in part by Brewer in the "Monumenta Franciscana" (Rolls Series, London, 1858); and by Howlett in the same series (1882); by the Friars Minor at Quaracchi (in Analecta Franciscana, I, 1885, 217-57); by Liebermann in the "Monumenta Germaniæ" (XXVIII, Hanover, 1885, 560-69).

There is an English translation of Eccleston's work by Father Cuthbert, O.S.F.C., "The Friars and how they came to England" (London, 1903).

References

*Wadding-Sbaralea; Script. ord. Min., ed. Nardecchia (Rome, 1907). 216
*Little, Thomas of Eccleston on the Coming of the Friars Minor to England (London, 1907

External links

*CathEncy|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05269b.htm|title=Thomas of Eccleston


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