Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- 1 Bede's Reputation as an Historian in Medieval England -- 2 Traditionalism and Continuity during the Last Century of Anglo-Saxon Monasticism -- 3 Legends and Traditions concerning the Origins of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds -- 4 Cultural Transition at Worcester in the Anglo-Norman Period -- 5 Prologues in the Historiography of Twelfth-Century England -- 6 The Growth of the Glastonbury Traditions and Legends in the Twelfth Century -- 7 Realistic Observation in Twelfth-Century England -- 8 The Chronicles of Medieval England and Scotland -- 9 The Cronica Buriensis and the Abbey of St Benet of Hulme -- 10 The Continuations of the Flores Historiarum from 1265 to 1327 -- 11 The Alleged Rape by Edward III of the Countess of Salisbury -- 12 A Fourteenth-Century Chronicle from the Grey Friars at Lynn -- 13 The Date and Authorship of John of Glastonbury's Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie -- 14 Antiquarian Studies in Fifteenth-Century England -- Additional Notes to Chapters 6, 8 and 10 -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Index of Manuscripts.