The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond
A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson
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Bury Abbey under Abbot Hugh, burdened with debt, is where this chronicle begins. After Hugh's death Henry II has delegates sent to court to choose a successor, and the monks settle on Samson. The monk Jocelin of Brakelond, who becomes the new abbot's chaplain, records Samson's installation and his reforms: an estate book, repairs, the management of the manors and the clearing of the convent's debts. Sir Ernest Clarke edited this 1903 edition, with a preface on Samson as administrator and author, and an epigraph from Carlyle's Past and Present.
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- Author
- Jocelin de Brakelond
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- Pages
- 167
- Language
- English
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- History
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