Chronicle and Historical Literature

The Anonimalle Chronicle; written in the fourteenth century in northern England. There are several modern editions:
Aungier, George James, ed. Croniques de London, Depuis L’an 44 Hen. III Jusqu’a l’an 17 Edw. III. Camden Society, no. 28. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Son, 1844.

Bateson, Mary, ed. “The Register of Crabhouse Nunnery” in Norfolk Archaeology 11 (1892): 1-71.

Bell, Alexander, ed., An Anglo-Norman Brut (Royal 13.A.xxi). Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1969.
Dickinson, J. C., ed. and Ricketts, P. T., ed., The Anglo-Norman Chronicle of Wigmore Abbey. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 39 (1969): 413-46.
Formisano, Luciano, ed., La Destructioun de Rome. London: Anglo-Norman Text Society Plain Text Series 8, 1990.
Gaimar, Geoffrey, Geffrei Gaimar: Estoire des Engleis: History of the English, ed. and trans. Ian Short. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Gaimar, Geoffrey, L’Estoire des Engleis, ed. Alexander Bell. Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1960.
Glover, John, ed. Le Livere de Reis de Brittanie e Le Livere de Resis de Engleterre. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer (Rolls Series, No. 42), 1865.
Grey, Thomas, Scalacronica, 1272-1363, ed. and trans. Andy King. Publications of the Surtees Society v. 209. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2005.
Grey, Thomas, Scalacronica: The Reigns of Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, trans. Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell. Glasgow: J. Maclehose and Sons, 1907.
Hathaway, E. J.; Ricketts, P. T.; Robson, C. A.; Wilshere, A. D., eds., Fouke le Fitz Waryn. Oxford: Basil Blackwell/Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1975.
Holden, Anthony, ed. and trans.; Crouch, David, ed.; Gregory, Stewart, ed. and trans., Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, vol. 1.  London: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 2002.

Howlett, Richard, ed., Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I. London: Longman & Co., Rolls Series, No. 82, 4 vols., 1884-89).

Johnston, R. C., ed. and trans., Jordan Fantosme’s Chronicle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981.
Johnston, R. C., ed., The Crusade and Death of Richard I. Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1961.
Marvin, Julia, ed. and trans., The Oldest Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: An Edition and Translation. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2006.
Meyer, Paul, ed., Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, 3 vols. Paris: Librairie Renouard, 1891.
Mullally, Evelyn, ed. and trans., Geste des Engleis en Yrlande: A New Edition of the Chronicle Formerly Known as the Song of Dermot and the Earl. Dublin: Four Courts, 2002.
Ricketts, Peter T., ed., Delapré Chronicle in Three Anglo-Norman Chronicles. Manchester: Anglo-Norman Text Society (Plain Texts Series, 16), 2011, pp. 20-7.
Short, Ian, ed., The Anglo-Norman Pseudo-Turpin Chronicle of William de Briane. Oxford: Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1973.
Spence, John, “The Mohun Chronicle: An Introduction, Edition and Translation.” Nottingham Medieval Studies 55 (2011): 149-215.
Stubbs, William, ed., Chronicles of the Reigns of Edward I and Edward II. London: Longman & Co., Rolls Series, No. 76, 2 vols., 1882-83.
Thiolier, Jean-Claude, ed., Pierre de Langtoft: Le Règne d’Edouard I. Créteil: Université de Paris, 1999.
Trevet, Nicholas, Les Cronicles qe frere N. Trevet script a dame Marie:
  • Extract: R. M. Correale, ed. and trans., “De la noble femme Constance” in “The Man of Law’s Prologue and Tale”, Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales: Vol. II, ed. R. M. Correale and Mary Hamel. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005, pp. 297-329.
  • Full Text (from MS R): Alexander Rutherford, “The Anglo-Norman Chronicle of Nicholas Trivet: Text, with Historical, Philological and Literary Study.” unpublished Ph. D. dissertation, University of London, 1932.
  • Middle English Version: Christine M. Rose, ed., “An Edition of Houghton Library MS Eng. 938: The Fifteenth-Century Middle English Translation of Nicholas Trevet’s Anglo-Norman Les Cronicles, with Brut Continuation”, Ph. D. dissertation, Tufts University, Medford, 1985.
Wace, Roman de Brut: A History of the English: Text and Translation, ed. and trans. Judith Weiss. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, 1999.
Wace, Roman de Rou, trans. Glyn S. Burgess; with the text of Anthony  Holden, and notes by Glyn S. Burgess and Elisabeth van Houts. St. Helier: Société Jersiaise, 2002.

For a valuable account of Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles and further bibliography, see John Spence, Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles (York Medieval Press, 2013).