Writing Universal History in Eleventh-Century England: Cotton Tiberius B. i, German Imperial History-writing and Vernacular Lay Literacy
Elizabeth M. Tyler
London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. i contains an early eleventh century copy of the Old English Orosius (fols. 3r–111v) which was joined, c. 1045, with C version Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC) 115v–164r). The is prefaced by two poems known as Menologium 112r–114v), a calendar poem and Maxims II 115r–115v), collection precepts offering proverbial wisdom. aim this chapter to open up political intellectual impetuses behind mid act compilation. Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, most recent editor C, incisively characterized product compiling ‘a book histories’. i, although produced in England vernacular, will emerge poised on cutting edge wider developments eleventhand twelfth-century European historiography – particular relation universal history, we more readily associate Latin history-writers German Empire.