Chronicle & Literature Editions

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  1. Adam of Bremen, History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen, translated by Francis Tschan, 2nd edn, New York: Columbia University Press, 2002 – US Readers
  2. Adam of Usk, The Chronicle of Adam Usk, 1377-1421 (Oxford Medieval Texts), translated Chris Given-Wilson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997 – US Readers
  3. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, translated by Leo Sherley-Price. 4th ed., London: Penguin Books, 1990 – US Readers
  4. Thomas A. Bredehoft, Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001 – US Readers, Aus Readers
  5. Eric Christiansen, The Works of Sven Aggesen, Twelfth-Century Danish Historian, London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 1993 – US Readers
  6. J.A. Giles, ed. and trans., Roger of Wendover’s Flowers of History, 2 vols, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849 – US Readers
  7. R.R. Darlington and P. McGurk (eds), The Chronicle of John of Worcester: Volume II: The Annals from 450 to 1066 (Oxford Medieval Texts), trans. Jennifer Bray and P. McGurk, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995 – US Readers
  8. Andrew Dennis, Peter Foote and Richard Perkins, eds. and trans. Laws of Early Iceland: Gràgas, the Codex Regius of Gràgas. 2 vols. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1980
  9. Eadmer’s, A History of Recent Events in England: Historia Novorum in Anglia, trans. Geoffrey Bosanquet, London, Cresset Press, 1964 – US Readers
  10. Janet Fairweather (trans,), Liber Eliensis, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005 – US Readers
  11. Geffrei Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis: History of the English, edited and translated by Ian Short. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 – US Readers
  12. Gerald of Wales. The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales. Edited and translated by Lewis Thorpe. London: Penguin Books, 1978 – US Readers
  13. Saxo Grammaticus, Gesta Danorum: The History of the Danes (Oxford Medieval Texts), edited by Karsten Friis-Jensen and translated by Peter Fisher, 2 vols, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2015
    1. Volume IUS Readers
    2. Volume IIUS Readers
  14. Seamus Heaney, ed. and trans., Beowulf (Bilingual Edition), London: Faber & Faber, 2011 – US Readers
  15. Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum: The History of the English People (Oxford Medieval Texts), edited and translated by Diana E. Greenaway, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996 – US Readers 
  16. Henry Knighton, Knighton’s Chronicle 1337-1396 (Oxford Medieval Texts), translated by G. H. Martin, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995 – US Readers
  17. Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge (eds and trans), Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources, London: Penguin, 1983 – US Readers
  18. Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Niocaill (eds), The Annals of Ulster (to A.D.1131), Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983 – US Readers
  19. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, Knytlinga Saga: The History of the Kings of Denmark. Odense: Odense University Press, 1986 – US Readers
  20. Charles Plummer (ed.), Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892) – US Readers
  21. John Taylor, Wendy R. Childs and Leslie Watkiss (eds), The St Albans Chronicle: The Chronica maiora of Thomas Walsingham Volume II 1394-1422 (Oxford Medieval Texts), Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2011
    1. Volume IUS Readers 
    2. Volume IIUS Readers
  22. Elaine Treharne, ed., Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450: An Anthology, third edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010 – US Readers
  23. Wace, Roman de Rou, trans. Glyn S. Burgess, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2004 – US Readers
  24. David A. Warner (ed. and trans.), Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg (Manchester Medieval Sources MUP), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001 – US Readers
  25. Dorothy Whitelock (ed.), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Revised Translation, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1965 – US Readers
  26. Dorothy Whitelock, ed. and trans. English Historical Documents, C. 500 – 1042. 2nd edn. 10 vols. Vol. 1. London: Eyre Methuen, 1979 – US Readers
  27. William of Jumieges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum, trans. Elisabeth Van Houts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995
    1. Volume IUS Readers
    2. Volume II – US Readers
  28. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum Anglorum, The History of the English Bishops: edited and translated by M Winterbottom, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007
    1. Volume I – US Readers
    2. Volume II US Readers
  29. Edward Roberts, Flodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 – US Readers