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.
  2. Adam of Usk, The Chronicle of Adam Usk, 1377-1421 (Oxford Medieval Texts), translated Chris Given-Wilson, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.
  3. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, translated by Leo Sherley-Price. 4th ed., London: Penguin Books, 1990.
  4. Eric Christiansen, The Works of Sven Aggesen, Twelfth-Century Danish Historian, London: Viking Society for Northern Research, 1993.
  5. J.A. Giles, ed. and trans., Roger of Wendover’s Flowers of History, 2 vols, London: Henry G. Bohn, 1849.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. Eadmer’s, A History of Recent Events in England: Historia Novorum in Anglia, trans. Geoffrey Bosanquet, London, Cresset Press, 1964.
  9. Janet Fairweather (trans,), Liber Eliensis, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005.
  10. Geffrei Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis: History of the English, edited and translated by Ian Short. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  11. Gerald of Wales. The Journey Through Wales and the Description of Wales. Edited and translated by Lewis Thorpe. London: Penguin Books, 1978.
  12. 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.
  13. Seamus Heaney, ed. and trans., Beowulf (Bilingual Edition), London: Faber & Faber, 2011.
  14. 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.
  15. Henry Knighton, Knighton’s Chronicle 1337-1396 (Oxford Medieval Texts), translated by G. H. Martin, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
  16. Simon Keynes and Michael Lapidge (eds and trans), Alfred the Great: Asser’s Life of King Alfred & Other Contemporary Sources, London: Penguin, 1983.
  17. Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Niocaill (eds), The Annals of Ulster (to A.D.1131), Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1983.
  18. Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards, Knytlinga Saga: The History of the Kings of Denmark. Odense: Odense University Press, 1986.
  19. Charles Plummer (ed.), Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892).
  20. 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. 
  21. Elaine Treharne, ed., Old and Middle English c.890-c.1450: An Anthology, third edition, Oxford: Blackwell, 2010.
  22. Wace, Roman de Rou, trans. Glyn S. Burgess, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2004.
  23. David A. Warner (ed. and trans.), Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg (Manchester Medieval Sources MUP), Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
  24. Dorothy Whitelock (ed.), The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Revised Translation, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1965.
  25. Dorothy Whitelock, ed. and trans. English Historical Documents, C. 500 – 1042. 2nd edn. 10 vols. Vol. 1. London: Eyre Methuen, 1979.
  26. William of Jumieges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum, trans. Elisabeth Van Houts, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1995.
  27. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Pontificum Anglorum, The History of the English Bishops: Volume I (Oxford Medieval Texts), edited and translated by M Winterbottom, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007.
  28. William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum: The History of the English Kings: Volume I (Oxford Medieval Texts), ed. and trans. R.A.B. Mynors, R.M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.
  29. Edward Roberts, Flodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth CenturyFlodoard of Rheims and the Writing of History in the Tenth Century, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.