Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Edmunds

History of Bury St Edmunds

Not to be confused with the 13th-century Chronicle of Bury St Edmunds.

The Chronicle of the Abbey of St Edmunds is a chronicle concerning the history of the Benedictine abbey at Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, England, between the years 1173 and 1202.^[1] It was written either in 1198^[2] or 1202^[3] by Jocelin of Brakelond, a monk at the abbey.^[4]

John Gage Rokewode published an edition of the Latin chronicle in 1840.^[5] An annotated translation was then published by Thomas Edlyne Tomlins in 1844.^[6] Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present , contrasting medieval and modern culture, prominently featured Abbot Samson as presented by the Chronicle. Other editions include Ernest Clarke's in 1903^[7] and Diana Greenway & Jane E. Sayers's in 1989.^[8]

References

Clarke, Ernest, ed. (1903), The Chronicle of Jocelin Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbott Samson, London: De La More Press.
Froude, J.A. (1891), Carlyle's Life in London, vol. I.
Greenway, Diana Eleanor; et al., eds. (1989), Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jane, Lionel Cecil, ed. (1907), The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond Monk of St. Edmundsbury: A Picture of Monastic and Social Life on the XIIth Century, London: Chatto & Windus.
Rokewode, John Gage, ed. (1840), Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda de Rebus Gestis Samsonis Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi [Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond on the Things Done by Samson Abbot of the Monastery of St Edmund] (in Latin), Camden Society.
Scarfe, Norman (2010), Suffolk in the Middle Ages: Studies in Places and Place-Names, the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Saints, Mummies and Crosses, Domesday Book, and Chronicles of Bury Abbey, Boydell Press.
Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne (1844), Monastic and Social Life in the Twelfth Century as Exemplified in the Chronicles of Jocelin of Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury, from A.D. MCLXXIII. to MCCII., London: Whittaker & Co.