The Monastic Chronicler And the Early School of St Albans
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" Lives of the XXIII Abbats " 67 ful to a great authority to urge once more that so far as any evidence that a really painful search can discover affords us information the office of Historio- grapher of St. Albans regarded as a distinct office to which there was a regular succession with the regular duties of general chronicler assigned to it is in that form an invention not of the latter half of the twelfth, but of the nineteenth century. We shall be wiser to confine ourselves to such stateme...nts as that Matthew Paris was " a magnificent historiographer and chrono- grapher/' and the note in Cotton MS. , Nero D V at A. D. 1234, even though it be possibly misplaced by a year : " Dom Roger of Wendover, sometime Prior of Belvoir, up to this point digested his chronicles, Incipit f rater Matthczus Parisiensis, " and so he con- tinued it down to the year 1250 or 1253. The work of Matthew Paris as a whole is so consider- able in extent that it is impossible to deal with it, except summarily, in a brief compass.
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