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Rogeri de Wendover Liber Qui Dicitur Flores Historiarum Ab Anno Domini MCLIV Annoque Henrici Anglorum Regis Secundi Primo
Roger of Wendover
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The Flowers of History by Roger of Wendover from the Year of Our Lord 1154
出版Cambridge University Press, 2012-11-15
主題History / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485)
ISBN11080523479781108052344
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=esfebhrNLG0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋A former prior of Belvoir, Roger of Wendover (d. 1236) established himself as a chronicler at St Albans. This three-volume work, edited by Henry G. Hewlett (1832-97) and published between 1886 and 1889, comprises the latter part of the larger Flores opus and the part of the Latin text for which Wendover can claim direct responsibility. Volume 3 includes the introductory matter, glossary and index to all three volumes. Hewlett's introduction discusses the little we know of Roger of Wendover's life as well as his shortcomings and merits as an annalist - namely that he was unreasoningly credulous yet invariably candid. His true importance, however, is as a key influence on his historiographical successor, Matthew Paris, whose political outlook and interests he helped to shape. A comparison is drawn between this work and that of Paris, the more gifted chronicler, who 'complemented the deficiencies of Wendover's narrative by substantial additions'.