Robert of Gloucester (historian)

Robert of Gloucester (historian)

Robert of Gloucester wrote a chronicle of British, English, and Norman history sometime in the mid- or late-thirteenth century. The "Chronicle" survives in some 16 manuscripts, ranging in date from the early fourteenth to mid-fifteenth centuries, and was of considerable interest to contemporaries and antiquarian scholars. It was not until after the editing of the text by William Aldis Wright that its neglect - "worthless as history" and "verse without one spark of poetry" according to its editor - became widespread.

Historically, the text is of interest primarily for materials relating to the Second Barons' War, to which the author (or an author of a portion of the text) seems to have been a witness. The first part of the "Chronicle" translates materials from Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Historia regum Britanniae", narrating fabulous British history. The majority of English/Anglo-Saxon history is compiled from the works of Henry of Huntingdon and William of Malmesbury, and the post-Conquest portions are translated from numerous sources densely interwoven with original text.

Bibliography

*Anonymous. "Robert of Gloucester's "Chronicle"." "Gentleman's Magazine" (Nov. 1834): 470-77.
*Edward Donald Kennedy, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23736 ‘Gloucester, Robert of (fl. c.1260–c.1300)’] , "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography", Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 4 Aug 2008
*Wright, William Aldis ed., "The Metrical Chronicle of Robert of Gloucester". 2 vols. Rolls Series 86 (London, 1887).

External links

* [http://www.bartleby.com/65/rb/RbrtGl.html Robert of Gloucester] at The Columbia Encyclopedia.
*worldcat id|lccn-n88-636058


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