Eulogium (Historiarum Sive Temporis)

The Eulogium is a world history from the Creation to 1366. The majority of the work is taken from earlier writers many of whom are named. For the period 135666 the writer probably Thomas a monk of Malmesbury provides an insight into the attitudes and opinions of his own time and also into the historical sources available to a member of a large religious house. The work was obviously well regarded as it survives in several manuscripts two of which were continued by unknown authors one to 1413 and one to 1490; these continuations are also included in this three-volume edition by Frank Scott Haydon (182287). Volume 2 published in 1860 contains Book 4 and half of Book 5. The former outlines world geography while the latter deals with early British history from the first settlement to King Arthur and the Saxon migrations.