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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.

The Life of Ailred of Rievaulx

With a facing-page English translation from the Latin text and also an introduction and notes by R. H. C. Davis.

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.

William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum (The Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England. This volume provides a full historical introduction and a detailed textual commentary, to complement the text and translation which appeared in Volume I.

William of Malmesbury's Gesta Regum Anglorum (The Deeds of the English Kings) is one of the great histories of England. Apart from its formidable learning, it is characterized by narrative skill and entertainment value. This edition, with facing-page English translation, provides for the first time a detailed commentary on all aspects of the work.

Peter of Celle was a figure of great authority and influence in twelfth-century France. His letters offer a unique insight into the ideals and values of the monastic world at a critical turning point for western religion. This is the first translation of his correspondence and the first complete modern edition, with full scholarly apparatus and a historical introduction.

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.

The biographical and historical works of Eadmer, secretary of Saint Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, look back to the Anglo-Saxon past and reflect realities of Norman society. This title provides insights into the political history of the pre- and post-Conquest periods, as well as evidence for the cults of the saints in Canterbury and Worcester.

William of Malmesbury's Gesta Pontificum Anglorum (The History of the English Bishops) presents the text and translation of this important work by one of England's greatest historians. It traces the history of the English Church - its bishops, archbishops and monasteries - from the coming of Christianity c. 600, to William's era.

This is a new critical edition of the letters of the Franciscan Adam Marsh, spiritual counsellor to many of the leading figures of his generation, including Simon de Montfort, and Queen Eleanor, making the letters an important source for the history of England and the Church in the turbulent middle years of the thirteenth century.

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.

This is the first complete edition of the Chronicon Anonymi Cantuariensis, a contemporary narrative that provides valuable insights into medieval war and politics. Newly edited with a modern English translation, it presents a detailed account of the military campaigns and diplomatic negotiations of a crucial phase in the Hundred Years War.

This "History" is a vivid and partly first-hand account of the church of York between 1069 and 1127. It illuminates the history not only of England's church and court, but also of France and the "papal curia" in these years.

The "Carmen de Hastingae Proelio" is one of the most discussed sources for the Norman Conquest. The epic poem is concerned with some of the most momentous events of a remarkable year, in which Halley's comet was a disturbing portent. This edition has a new historical introduction and notes.

From the tenth century, the monastic community at Ely venerated a group of female saints: Athelthryth, its founding patroness, who died in 679, supposedly a virgin despite two marriages; her sister Seaxburh; another supposed sister Wihtburh, whose remains had been stolen by the monks of Ely. This is the translation of the lives of these saints.

William of Malmesbury (c.1090-c.1143) wrote 'Lives of saints: of Wulfstan II of Worcester', 'Dunstan of Canterbury', 'Patrick', and the more obscure 'Benignus and Indract', honoured at Glastonbury. This volume contains editions and translations of all these works, with an assessment of their importance as sources of information.

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.

These annals, written by a Franciscan friar in Ghent c. 1308-10, describe events in the Low Countries between 1297 and 1310.

This is the first critical edition of the twelfth-century Latin epic poem, Historia Vie Hierosolimitane, in an authoritative Oxford Medieval Texts edition, with facing-page text and translation and detailed introduction and notes.

This volume contains comprehensive and scholarly editions of three important Anglo-Saxon saints' lives. Rosalind Love provides the Latin texts, based on all known manuscript versions, with a facing-page English translation, together with full annotation and a historical introduction which sets these works in the context of the development of hagiographical literature.

In the OXFORD MEDIEVAL TEXTS series. The first complete edition and translation covering the annals from 1067 to 1140. McGurk has used all available manuscript evidence, and also publishes the Gloucester interpolations made to one of the manuscripts. The text is in Latin with facing page English translation.

This is the first edition of the life of St Modwenna, an obscure Irish saint whose bones supposedly came to rest in the West Midlands abbey of Burton. Abbot Geoffrey of Burton's account of her life sheds much light on the Latinity, religious attitudes, and historical consciousness of this Benedictine author.