Radulph of Coggeshall

Radulph von Coggeshall († around 1224 near Essex ), also Radulph of Coggeshall or (New English ) Ralph of Coggeshall , was an English Cistercian , abbot and chronicler .

Radulph was from 1207 to 1218 the sixth abbot of the monastery Coggeshall Abbey in Essex , England . Almost nothing is known about his life and work. Only his work Chronicon Anglicanum has been preserved, it spans the years 1066 to 1224. Radulph obtained much of his information from a certain Gervais of Tilbury , who was a possible co-author in Radulph's last years. The book begins with the account of the Norman conquest of England and then gives a detailed account of the third crusade . His more well-known stories include the anecdote about Woolpit's green children . Radulph's work was first published by Robert Anstruther in his work Radulphi Nigri chronicon ab initio mundi ad AD 1199 in 1851, and again by Joseph Stevenson under the title Radulphi de Coggeshall chronicon Anglicanum in 1875.

Works

Chronicon Anglicanum in three chapters, probably completed around 1224.

literature

Alan Charles Kors, Edward Peters: Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 9780812217513 , pp. 78-80.
Jeffey Jerome Cohen: Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England . Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke 2008, ISBN 0-23061412-4 , pp. 83, 84, 87.

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personal data
SURNAME	Radulph of Coggeshall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English chronicler
DATE OF BIRTH	before 1207
DATE OF DEATH	after 1218