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An insight into the life and work of probably the greatest scholar of the Carolingian Renaissance: the collection of writings and letters of the close confidant of Emperor Charlemagne, compiled while still alive

500 years of first-hand British local history perpetuated from one generation of monks to the next: the captivating chronicle of Melrose Abbey in the Scottish borderlands featuring the oldest surviving list of Scottish kings

The oldest historiated initial in the history of European illumination: preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of the English People by the highly educated Beda Venerabilis

The first 80 years of Norman rule in England: a valuable chronicle on the threshold between Old English and Middle English and the oldest surviving written source for the pronoun “she”

A translation with a lasting impact: Orosius' late antique Latin universal history in Old English, which became the gold standard for subsequent Anglo-Saxon chronicles

One of the oldest and most important historical documents for the early history of England: Beda Venerabilis' "Ecclesiastical History of the English People", from Caesar's invasion to the 8th century