Deeds of King Stephen

Deeds of King Stephen

__NOTOC__"Deeds of King Stephen" or "Acts of Stephen" or "Gesta Stephani" is a 12th century English history by an anonymous author about Stephen of England.

Some historians think the author may have been Robert of Bath, Bishop of Bath from 1136 to 1166. [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=34341 British History Online Bishops of Bath and Wells] accessed on September 23, 2007] Huscroft "Ruling England" p. 200]

ee also

* English historians in the Middle Ages

Notes

References

* Gesta Stephani, edited and translated by K.R. Potter Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN-13: 978-0198222347 Latin text with facing-page English translation
* [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=34341 British History Online Bishops of Bath and Wells] accessed on September 23, 2007
* Huscroft, Richard "Ruling England 1042-1217" London: Pearson Longman 2005 ISBN 0-582-84882-2

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/211/0908.html Latin Chroniclers from the Eleventh to the Thirteenth Centuries: "Gesta Stephani"] from "The Cambridge History of English and American Literature", Volume I, 1907–21.


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