Friday Funday: The Scotichronicon
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As you should know Fridays is random blog day were we talk anything
and everything and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on The
Scotichronicon by historian Walter Bower.
Walter
Bower (or
Bowmaker;
c. 1385–
24
December 1449) was a Scottish Canon regular and abbot of Inchcolm
Abbey in the Firth of Forth, who is noted as a chronicler of his era.
He was born about 1385 at Haddington, East Lothian in the Kingdom of
Scotland In 1991,Donald Watt
said
of Bower's Scotichronicon that "We are more and more convinced
that this book is one of the national treasures of Scotland, which
should be studied in depth for many different kinds of enquiry into
Scotland’s past."
- Walter Bower Wiki
Normally books would go under the
Tuesday Book Club but The Scotichronicon is considered “the most
important medieval account of Scottish history” by the National
library of Scotland. They noted that it provided both a window into
the world view of Medieval commentation and a strong expression of
national identity. The text has a reference“The famous murderer,
Robin Hood as well as Little John” which was found in Latin under
the year 1266 and is considered one of the earliest Robin Hood
references.
Bower began the work in 1440 at the
request of his Neighbour Sir David Stewart of Rosyth, the completed
works consist of 16 books in its original form. The first five of six
are Forduns (or mainly his-cause he added to them in places) in the
later books down tot he reign of Robert 1st (1371) he was
aided by Fordun's Gesta Annalia. But from that point on the
work is original and of contemporary importance especially for James
1st was the book ends with his death. Bower finished the
book in 1447.
Bower wrote an abridgement of the
Scotichronicon in the last two years of his life which became known
as the Book of Cupar and is housed at the Advocates' Library in
Edinburgh. Other abridgements were made at the same time in 1450 and
1461 by other authors and both are preserved in the same collection
at the Advocates Library. There are several copies of the
Scotichronicon in full in the British library, in Harl, MS, in the
Advocates' Library and in the Library of Corpus Christi College,
Cambridge.
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