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Critical edition and full translation of the Latin text of this important source for the history of Anglo-Saxon England and for religion in Western Europe in the 10th century.

This is a major new edition of the letters written and received between 1162 and 1170 by Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury and victim of the 'murder in the cathedral'. It takes the reader to the very heart of the great dispute that rocked the English kingdom in the twelfth century.

The Bishops, Kings, and Saints of York

The chronicle, which was written at Worcester by 1140, is of considerable interest to historians of both the Anglo-Saxon period and of the late-11th and 12th centuries. Its backbone is a translation of an Anglo-Saxon chronicle with varied connections.

This is the first complete edition of Henry of Huntingdon's Historia Anglorum (The History of the English People), covering the period between 55 BC and 1154 AD. Henry was an eyewitness of events under Henry I (1100-35) and Stephen (1135-54), and was also one of the finest Anglo-Latin poets.

Volume II of 'The History of the Church of Abingdon', a valuable local history produced in the Middle Ages, contains information for historians working on the legal, monastic, and ecclesiastical affairs of the great English monasteries c.1071-c.1164. Volume I, to be published subsequently, contains the pre-1071 material.

The Historia Novella is the key source for the succession dispute between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda which brought England to civil war in the twelfth century. Edmund King has provided a major new edition, with revised translation, of the most important eyewitness account of the `anarchy' of King Stephen's reign.

Byrhtferth of Ramsey was one of the most learned scholars of late Anglo-Saxon England, and his two saints' Lives-of Oswald, a powerful bishop of Worcester and York in the tenth century, and Ecgwine, the seventh-century founder of Evesham-are among the most important historical sources for our understanding of late Anglo-Saxon England.

The "Evesham History" is one of the last important 13th-century texts to be translated. It is written as a history of the lawsuit between the monastery at Evesham and the Bishop of Worcester over the Bishop's right to visit or inspect the community.