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`Undergraduates and amateurs will ... greatly welcome the availability of the facing page translation and can read it with reasonable confidence of its reliability ... translating the latin of local chronicles is a frequently underappreciated task. Professor Rollason has done a very creditable job on this front.' David Townsend `This edition is a welcome culmination to the recent dramatic advances in our knowledge of Durham historiography to which Rollason himself has made a significant contribution. The text will hold its own, its historical commentary is helpful and exhaustive, the introduction brings Symeon and Durham historical writing into sharper focus. Studies of the Cronica monasterii Dunelmensis, of the De primo aduentu Saxonum, and of the Historia regum in time might give a fuller picture, but they are unlikely to affect the great value of this edition for which Rollason must to be warmly thanked. The history of the see of St Cuthbert from its start at Lindisfarne in the seventh century to the reestablishment of a monastic community in Durham is again firmly underpinned and clearly visible. Symeon and his team could not have wished for more.' Dr Patrick McGurk, Reviews in History `Rollason's fascinating hypothesis zooms in on the making and revision of a text, often giving plausible historical reasons for the more substantial alterations.' Dr Patrick McGurk, Reviews in History `This Symeon admirably offers an apparently full critical apparatus and an extended and comprehensive commentary.' Dr Patrick McGurk, Reviews in History `David Rollason has done medievalists a great service in this meticulou and accessible new edition with translation of Symeon of Durham's Tract on the Origins and Progress of this churhcof Durham. It is a volume of considerable importance for those interested in historiography and the preservation of the past in the middle ages, the cult of the saints and monastic and ecclesiastical history.' The English Historical Review

Splendid edition with a full commentary. Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature Unlike its predecessors the new edition makes full use of the readings of all six manuscripts, and it provides an extremely detailed and helpful commentary in footnotes. It is in this elucidation of the contents, details of which can be found through the generous indexes, that the special merit of this fine contribution to the study of post-Conquest English historiography is to be sought. Medium AEvum This edition is a welcome culmination to the recent dramatic advances in our knowledge of Durham historiography to which Rollason himself has made a significant contribution. The text will hold its own, its historical commentary is helpful and exhaustive, the introduction brings Symeon and Durham historical writing into sharper focus. Studies of the Cronica monasterii Dunelmensis, of the De primo aduentu Saxonum, and of the Historia regum in time might give a fuller picture, but they are unlikely to affect the great value of this edition for which Rollason must to be warmly thanked. The history of the see of St Cuthbert from its start at Lindisfarne in the seventh century to the reestablishment of a monastic community in Durham is again firmly underpinned and clearly visible. Symeon and his team could not have wished for more. Dr Patrick McGurk, Reviews in History

Splendid edition with a full commentary. Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature Unlike its predecessors the new edition makes full use of the readings of all six manuscripts, and it provides an extremely detailed and helpful commentary in footnotes. It is in this elucidation of the contents, details of which can be found through the generous indexes, that the special merit of this fine contribution to the study of post-Conquest English historiography is to be sought. Medium Avum This edition is a welcome culmination to the recent dramatic advances in our knowledge of Durham historiography to which Rollason himself has made a significant contribution. The text will hold its own, its historical commentary is helpful and exhaustive, the introduction brings Symeon and Durham historical writing into sharper focus. Studies of the Cronica monasterii Dunelmensis, of the De primo aduentu Saxonum, and of the Historia regum in time might give a fuller picture, but they are unlikely to affect the great value of this edition for which Rollason must to be warmly thanked. The history of the see of St Cuthbert from its start at Lindisfarne in the seventh century to the reestablishment of a monastic community in Durham is again firmly underpinned and clearly visible. Symeon and his team could not have wished for more. Dr Patrick McGurk, Reviews in History

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