Robert Mannyng

Robert Mannyng of Brunne, a Gilbertine Monk, provides a surprising amount of information about himself in his two known works, Handlyng Synne and a Chronicle. Mannyng himself tells of residencies at the Gilbertine houses of Sempringham, near Bourne, and Sixhills, and also at the Gilbertine priory at Cambridge, St. Edmund?s.

Related Topics:
Gilbertine - Cambridge

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Handlyng Synne is a twelve thousand line devotional or penitential piece, written in Middle English rhymed couplets, deriving many of its exempla from the Anglo-Norman Manuel des Peches. The Chronicle, supposedly completed in 1338, translates Wace's Roman de Brut for British history, before translating Piers Langtoft's Chronicle for English and Norman history.

Related Topics:
Middle English - Anglo-Norman - 1338 - Wace - Piers Langtoft

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• Mannyng's Chronicle

See also: English historians in the Middle Ages

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