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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
August 2013
Print publication year:
2012
First published in:
1876
Online ISBN:
9781139226271
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139226271
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls
Subjects:
British History 1066-1450, History, British History Before 1066
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Book description

Ralph de Diceto (d.1199/1200), dean of St Paul's, was both a painstaking compiler of information and an intellectual historian of remarkably wide vision. This two-volume collection of his writings, originally published in 1876, covers the history of the world from the Creation to 1202 (it was continued posthumously). The historian J. F. A. Mason wrote that the Abbreviationes chronicorum (included in Volume 1, together with the first part of the more important Ymagines historiarum) at the time represented the most ambitious attempt at a world history made by an Englishman. In his preface as editor to this volume, William Stubbs (1825–1901) gives a characteristically thorough background to the author, writing extensively on, among other topics, the question of Ralph's mysterious name. His edition also benefits from the reintroduction of Ralph's elsewhere-omitted marginal signa: a pictorial code of crosses, swords, and crowns being torn at by jealous hands.

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