Robert Mannyng
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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.
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.
See also: English historians in the Middle Ages
External links
- Robert Mannyng of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne (http://www.bartleby.com/211/1607.html) from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Volume I, 1907–21.