Biographies & Memoirs

Abbreviations

In citing manuscripts or printed materials, the following abbreviations are used:

Actes

Recueil des Actes de Henri II, Roi d’Angleterre et Duc de Normandie, Concernant les Provinces Françaises et les Affaires de France, ed. L. Delisle and E. Berger, 3 vols. and introduction (Paris, 1909–27)

ALCD

M. R. James, The Ancient Libraries of Canterbury and Dover (Cambridge, 1905)

Barlow

F. Barlow, Thomas Becket (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1986)

BL

British Library, London

BNF

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Bodleian

Bodleian Library, Oxford

CCCC

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Chronicles

Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I, ed. R. Howlett, 4 vols. (London, 1884–9)

CSEL

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 87 vols. (Vienna, 1866–1976)

CTB

The Correspondence of Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. 1162–1170, ed. A. J. Duggan, 2 vols. (Oxford, 2000)

CUL

Cambridge University Library

DSCDR

Dialogus de Scaccario: The Dialogue of the Exchequer, ed. E. Amt, and Constitutio Domus Regis: Disposition of the Royal Household, ed. S. D. Church (Oxford, 2007)

Duggan

A. J. Duggan, Thomas Becket (London, 2004)

EHD

English Historical Documents: Volume II, 1042–1189, ed. D. C. Douglas and G. W. Greenaway, 2nd edn (London, 1981)

EHR

English Historical Review

Eyton

R. W. Eyton, Court, Household and Itinerary of King Henry II (London, 1878)

Foedera

Foedera, Conventiones, Litterae et Cuiuscunque Generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae et Alios Quosuis Imperatores, Reges, Pontifices, Principes vel Communitates. Volume I, Part I, ed. T. Rymer (London, 1816)

GC

Gervase of Canterbury, ‘Cronica Gervasii’, in HASD, cols. 1338–1628

GH

Gervase of Canterbury, ‘The History of the Archbishops of Canterbury’, in The Church Historians of England. Volume V, Part I, ed. J. Stevenson (London, 1858), pp. 293–348

Greenaway

The Life and Death of Thomas Becket, Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury … with Additions from Other Contemporary Sources, ed. G. W. Greenaway (London, 1961)

GS

Gesta Stephani, Regis Anglorum et Ducis Normannorum, ed. R. H. C. Davis and K. R. Potter (Oxford, 1976)

Guernes

La Vie de Saint Thomas Le Martyr, Archévêque de Canterbury, ed. C. Hippeau (Paris, 1859)

HASD

Historiae Anglicanae Scriptores Decem, ed. R. Twysden (London, 1652)

Henry II

Henry II: New Interpretations, ed. C. Harper-Bill and N. Vincent (Woodbridge, 2007)

HH

The Chronicle of Henry of Huntingdon, ed. Thomas Forester (London, 1853), pp. 1–297

HJ

Historical Journal

HP

The ‘Historia Pontificalis’ of John of Salisbury, ed. M. Chibnall (2nd edn, Oxford, 1986)

Knowles

D. Knowles, Thomas Becket (London, 1970)

Laarhoven

John of Salisbury’s Entheticus Maior and Minor, ed. J. van Laarhoven, 3 vols. (Leiden, 1987)

Lambeth

Lambeth Palace Library, London

LJS

The Letters of John of Salisbury, ed. W. J. Millor, H. E. Butler and C. N. L. Brooke, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1979–86)

LPC

The Letters of Peter of Celle, ed. J. Haseldine (Oxford, 2001)

Lyttelton

George, Lord Lyttelton, The History of the Life of King Henry the Second, 5 vols. (new edn, London, 1777)

Map

Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium: Courtiers’ Trifles, ed. M. R. James (Oxford, 1983)

MS

Manuscript

MTB

Materials for the History of Thomas Becket, ed. J. C. Robertson and J. B. Sheppard, 7 vols. (Rolls Series: London, 1875–85)

NA

National Archives, Kew

ODNB

The New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, ed. Colin Matthew and Brian Harrison, 60 vols. (Oxford, 2004) and http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/index.html

OV

The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, ed. T. Forester, 4 vols. (London, 1853–6)

PJS 1

John of Salisbury, Policraticus, ed. C. J. Nederman (Cambridge, 1990)

PJS 2

John of Salisbury, Frivolities of Courtiers and Footprints of Philosophers [translation of the first, second and third books, and selections from the seventh and eighth books of the Policraticus], ed. J. B. Pike (New York, 1972)

PL

Patrologia Latina, ed. J.-P. Migne, 221 vols. (Paris, 1844–64)

Radford

L. B. Radford, Thomas of London before his Consecration (Cambridge, 1894)

RC

‘A Reconstruction of Robert of Cricklade’s Vita et Miracula S. Thomae Cantuariensis’, ed. M. Orme, Annalecta Bollandiana, 84 (1966), pp. 379–98

RD

Ralph of Diss, ‘Ymagines Historiarum’, in HASD, cols. 525–710

RH

Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene [The Chronicle of Roger of Howden], ed. W. Stubbs, 2 vols. (London, 1868)

RM

Robert de Monte, ‘The Chronicles of Robert de Monte’, in The Church Historians of England. Volume IV, Part II, ed. J. Stevenson (London, 1856), pp. 675–813

RN

The Chronicles of Ralph Niger, ed. R. Anstruther (Caxton Society: London, 1851)

SC

Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History, ed. W. Stubbs (9th edn, Oxford, 1962)

Staunton

The Lives of Thomas Becket, ed. Michael Staunton (Manchester, 2001)

TCC

Trinity College, Cambridge

TRHS

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

TSE

Thomas Saga Erkibyskups: A Life of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Icelandic with English Notes and Translation, ed. E. Magnusson, 2 vols. (London, 1875–83)

WM

William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the Kings of England, ed. J. A. Giles (London, 1847)

WN

William of Newburgh, ‘The History of William of Newburgh’, in The Church Historians of England. Volume IV, Part II, ed. J. Stevenson (London, 1856), pp. 397–672

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