{"product_id":"eadmer-of-canterbury-selden-john-ed","title":"EADMER OF CANTERBURY; SELDEN, John, ed.","description":"\u003cp\u003e.Elegant copy of the editio princeps of this important medieval history of England, edited by the English antiquary and jurist John Selden -  central to historians  accounts of the English state under the Norman kings and its relations to  the church   (Maddicott, p.95). Together with those of Florence of Worcester and William of Malmesbury, Eadmer s work stands as one of the major medieval English histories. Eadmer (1060-1126) was an English monk based at the Benedictine Abbey of Christ Church, in Canterbury. There he met St Anselm, and became his secretary and closest companion, and composed influential theological (e.g., on the Immaculate Conception) and historical works.  Historia  deals with the history of England in 1066-1122, from William the Conqueror to Henry I. The ms was unearthed by Selden (1584-1654) in Robert Cotton s library, and here provided with a long philological, historical and methodological preface (including Eadmer s biography and the sources consulted), copious glosses and commentaries. The  Historia  begins from the last Anglo-Saxon kings - Edgar, Ethelred, Edward the Confessor, Harold. Interspersed with royal history is that of the English bishops; in particular, Eadmer upheld the pre-eminence of Canterbury over York, as episcopal seat. A long section on St Anselm during his years at Canterbury is also his first official public  portrait  written by someone who knew him, together with Eadmer s separate, and more private,  Vita Anselmi . Selden s notes appear in a separate appendix, with a selection ( Spicilegium ) of historical information and excerpts from documents. E.g., the beginning (pp.145-54) of a document addressed to King Edgar on behalf of English Benedictine monks and nuns, here printed in the Anglo-Saxon and Latin. The laws granted by William the Conqueror to the English are also reproduced, in Latin and Norman French. A most interesting and important work.. \u003cbr\u003e\n. \u003cbr\u003e\n..Jean-Pierre II de Montchal (1652-98),  seigneur de Noyen et Grisy , counsellor at the Parliament of Paris, was likely a discerning bibliophile, as several finely-bound books survive with his charming gilt supralibros. A. Jessopp was probably Augustus (1823-1914), English clergyman and schoolmaster in Norfolk, author of historical essays and friend to the writer M.R. James..\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EADMER OF CANTERBURY; SELDEN, John, ed.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868677644623,"sku":"L3758","price":1950.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1016\/2425\/0703\/files\/IMG_3046.webp?v=1781793648","url":"https:\/\/sokol-books-ltd.myshopify.com\/products\/eadmer-of-canterbury-selden-john-ed","provider":"Sokol Books Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}