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Canterbury Medieval Latin Texts

with some English online translations

Anselm (also see Eadmer)


Gabriel Gerberon,  Sancti Anselmi ex Beccensi Abbate Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Opera, nec non Eadmeri Monachi Cantuariensis Historia Novorum, et Alia Opuscula [The Works of St Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury and Former Abbot of Bec, and the History of New Things and Other Minor Works of Eadmer, monk of Canterbury] (in Latin), Paris: Louis Billaine & Jean du Puis (1675).

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Anselm of Canterbury, Complete Philosophical and theological treaties of Anselm of Canterbury, trans. J. Hopkins & H. Richardson (Minneapolis: The Arthur J. Banning Press, 2000). Translators Preface. 
 

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Dunstan


Memorials of Saint Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, ed. W. Stubbs, RS 63 (London: Longman, 1874) See English Historical Documents doc 234 for Extracts from the oldest Life of St Dunstan (via a University subscription) 

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Becket 


Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, ed. J. C. Robertson and J. B. Sheppard, vol. II (of I-VII), RS 67 (London, 1876). Miracles recorded by Benedict of Peterborough, John of Salisbury, Allan of Tewkesbury, and Edward Grim (in Latin).

Benedicti Abbatis Petriburgensis, De vita et miraculis S. Thomae Cantuar, ed. J. A. Giles (London: Caxton Society, 1850). 


English Translations of Becket miracles:
E. A. Abbott, St Thomas of Canterbury, 2 vols. (London, Black, 1898),Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 

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Elham (or Elmham)


Thomas of Elham’s chronicle of St Augustine’s Abbey, Historia Monasterii S. Augustini Cantuariensis. Ed. by Charles Hardwick with introduction in English (1858), e-book.

No English translation - see British History Online -  St Augustine’s Abbey  

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Eadmer (see also Anselm)

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Eadmer of Canterbury, Eadmeri Historia novorum in Anglia et opuscula duo de vita Sancti Anselmi et quibusdam miraculis ejus, Rolls Series, vol. 81, ed. M. Rule (London: Longman, 1884) 

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Eadmer’s History of recent events in England. Historia novorum in Anglia, trans. Geoffrey Bosanquet, (London: Cresset, 1964) not on-line, hard copy only in Canterbury Cathedral Library

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Epistolæ cantuarienses

 

The letters of the prior and convent of Christ Church, Canterbury, from A.D. 1187 to A.D. 1199, in Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard the First ed. W. Stubbs, v. 2 (London: Longman, 1865), RS 38, Google e-book in Latin with English introduction and margin notes. No English translation.

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Gervase of Canterbury, Tractatus de combustione . . .


Chronicles and Memorials of the Reign of Richard the First, ed. W. Stubbs, v. 1 (London: Longman, 1864), RS 38. Includes The Historical Works of Gervase of Canterbury.


De combustione translation in R. Willis, ‘The Burning and Repair of the Church of Canterbury,’ The Architectural History of Canterbury Cathedral (London: Longman, 1845), pp. 32-62, Google e-book.

 

See Paul Hayward’s Medieval Primary Sources site on Gervase with bibliography 

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William Thorne’s Chronicle from St Augustine’s Abbey

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The manuscript is in the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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