Estoire Des Engleis: History of the English by Ian Short, Geffrei Gaimar

Estoire Des Engleis: History of the English

Ian Short, Geffrei Gaimar

550 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

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Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis is the oldest surviving example of historiography in the French vernacular. It was written in Lincolnshire c.1136-37 and is, in large part, an Anglo-Norman verse adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Its nar...

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