Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis : Kingship and Power

An important text from the "twelfth—century Renaissance" of history writing re—evaluated, drawing out its complex representations of monarchs from Cnut to William Rufus.


Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis is its author's sole surviving work. His translation and adaptation of the Anglo—Saxon Chronicle, expanded with a number of lengthy interpolations which appear to draw upon oral traditions and other, unknown written sources, is all that remains of an ambitious history which once reached b...