During his tenure as abbot, he supported the abbey with gifts ; the medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury said that they were splendid and many.

According to the medieval chronicler John of Worcester, Ealdred was given the see of Ramsbury to administer while Herman remained outside England.

John of Worcester, a medieval chronicler, stated that Ealdred crowned King Harold II in 1066, although the Norman chroniclers mention Stigand as the officiating prelate.

According to the medieval chronicler Geoffrey Gaimar, after the Battle of Stamford Bridge Harold entrusted the loot gained from Harold Hardrada to Ealdred.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury records a story that when the new sheriff of Worcester, Urse d ' Abetot, encroached on the cemetery of the cathedral chapter for Worcester Cathedral, Ealdred pronounced a rhyming curse on him, saying " Thou are called Urse.

Adam of Bremen ( also: Adamus Bremensis ) was a German medieval chronicler.

Jean de Venette, a Carmelite friar and medieval chronicler vividly describes the chaos in France which he states he himself witnessed, after the time of this Battle.

The chronicler related this story ( a typical medieval allegory ) as follows:

Mellitus was the recipient of a famous letter from Pope Gregory I known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, preserved in a later work by the medieval chronicler Bede, which suggested the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons be undertaken gradually, integrating pagan rituals and customs.

The medieval chronicler Bede described Mellitus as being of noble birth.

According to one chronicler, Richard's last act of chivalry proved fruitless ; in an orgy of medieval brutality, the infamous mercenary captain Mercadier had the crossbowman flayed alive and hanged as soon as Richard died.

This transformation is often associated with the appearance of the full moon, as popularly noted by the medieval chronicler Gervase of Tilbury, and perhaps in earlier times among the ancient Greeks through the writings of Petronius.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury says that the king also seized and depopulated many miles of land ( 36 parishes ), turning it into the royal New Forest region to support his enthusiastic enjoyment of hunting.

" The abbot in his wisdom decided that great number of young monks in the monastery should be thoroughly initiated in these arts "-says the chronicler about the role of the Greeks in the revival of mosaic art in medieval Italy.

The medieval chronicler Jean Froissart left the following account of John's last actions:

* Jean Le Bel ( c. 1290 – 1370 ), medieval Flemish chronicler

William of Tyre ( c. 1130 – 29 September 1186 ) was a medieval prelate and chronicler.

Gerald of Wales ( c. 1146 – c. 1223 ), also known as Gerallt Gymro in Welsh or Giraldus Cambrensis in Latin, archdeacon of Brecon, was a medieval clergyman and chronicler of his times.

The medieval chronicler Matthew Paris said that Boniface was " noted more for his birth than for his brains.

The medieval chronicler Florence of Worcester referred to him as a Brytonicus, which presumably meant that he was a native of Cornwall.

* Rogerius of Apulia, medieval chronicler

The medieval chronicler Jans der Enikel reports that the duke appeared in a red-white-red ceremonial dress at his 1232 accolade in the Vienna Schottenstift.

Ceolfrith later became Abbot of Wearmouth-Jarrow during the time the medieval chronicler and writer Bede was a monk there.

The medieval chronicler William of Malmesbury praised Æthelnoth's wisdom.

Bede dedicated this work to Cuthbert, apparently a student, for he is named " beloved son " in the dedication, and Bede says " I have laboured to educate you in divine letters and ecclesiastical statutes " Another textbook of Bede's is the De orthographia, a work on orthography, designed to help a medieval reader of Latin with unfamiliar abbreviations and words from classical Latin works.

* Bede writes On the reckoning of time ( De temporum ratione ) explaining how to calculate medieval Easter.

His followers commissioned Stephen of Ripon to write a Vita Sancti Wilfrithi ( or Life of Wilfrid ) shortly after his death, and the medieval historian Bede also wrote extensively about him.

The native Picts, according to the medieval writer Bede, were converted in two stages, initially by native Britons under Ninian, and subsequently by Irish missionaries.

The main sources for knowledge of Wilfrid are the medieval Vita Sancti Wilfrithi, written by Stephen of Ripon soon after Wilfrid's death, and the works of the medieval historian Bede, who knew Wilfrid during the bishop's lifetime.

C. Warren Hollister so ranks him among the most talented generation of writers of history since Bede, " a gifted historical scholar and an omnivorous reader, impressively well versed in the literature of classical, patristic and earlier medieval times as well as in the writings of his own contemporaries.

During the course of his studies, he amassed a collection of medieval histories, which inspired in him the idea for a popular account of English history modelled on the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) of Bede.

The papal letter to Honorius is given in the Ecclesistical History of the medieval writer Bede.

Further, Stenton argued that medieval copyists had introduced an error into the manuscripts of the Historia, and that Bede meant that the length of Deusdedit's reign was 9 years and 7 months, rather than 9 years and 4 months as stated in the manuscripts.

These were de rigueur in medieval religious narrative, but Bede appears to have avoided relating the more extraordinary tales ; and, remarkably, he makes almost no claims for miraculous events at his own monastery.

The first history of medieval England was written by Bede in the 8th century ; many more accounts of contemporary and ancient history followed, usually termed chronicles.

The main museum building features the ' Age of Bede ' exhibit, including excavated artifacts from the historic monastery such as stained glass, imported pottery, coins and stone carvings, and exhibits about Anglo-Saxon culture, Bede's life and works, the life of a monk, and the medieval Kingdom of Northumbria.

The medieval writer Bede claims that he served as the Abbot of Glastonbury, and documentary evidence names Berhtwald as abbot at Reculver before his election as archbishop.

Lyddington Bede House, owned by English Heritage, is a Grade I listed building incorporating parts of a medieval bishop's palace.

Some medieval chronicles and literary works derive the name of the city of Buda from him. There is an ancient legend, amongst the Székely people that says: " After the death of Attila, in the bloody Battle of Krimhilda, 3000 Hun warriors managed to escape, to settle in a place called " Csigle mezo " ( today Transylvania ) and they changed their name from Huns to Szekler ( Szekely ).

He says this provides an explanation for land sightings and for the variable back shape, and relates it to the medieval description of dragons as " worms ".

As the Dictionary of the Middle Ages says, " William's achievements in assembling and evaluating sources, and in writing in excellent and original Latin a critical and judicious ( if chronologically faulty ) narrative, make him an outstanding historian, superior by medieval, and not inferior by modern, standards of scholarship.

Also popular in the UK is Tewkesbury mustard, a blend of mustard and grated horseradish originally created in medieval times and mentioned by Shakespeare ( Falstaff says: " his wit's as thick as Tewkesbury Mustard " in Henry IV Part II ).

Historian Norman Cantor who specialized in the medieval period, teaching and writing at Columbia and New York University, says in 1993: " It may be true that the Arabs had now fully extended their resources and they would not have conquered France, but their defeat ( at Tours ) in 732 put a stop to their advance to the north.

A medieval variation is alluded to in Geoffrey Chaucer ’ s Canterbury Tales at the beginning of the “ Knight ’ s Tale ,” where it says: “ Certainly, if it were not too lengthy to listen to, I would have told you fully how the realm of Scythia was conquered by Theseus and his knights ; of the great battle on that occasion between the Athenians and the Amazons ; how Hippolyta, the fair, brave queen of Scythia, was besieged ; of the feast at their wedding ; and of the tempest at their home-coming .”

O ' Mulconry's Glossary, a thirteenth century compilation of glosses from medieval manuscripts preserved in the Yellow Book of Lecan, describes Macha as " one of the three morrígna " ( the plural of Morrígan ), and says the term Mesrad Machae, " the mast crop of Macha ", refers to " the heads of men that have been slaughtered.

The medieval myth of Partholon says that his followers were the first to invade Ireland after the flood, but the Fomorians were already there: Seathrún Céitinn reports a tradition that the Fomorians, led by Cíocal, had arrived two hundred years earlier and lived on fish and fowl until Partholon came, bringing the plough and oxen.

Lyons says " His teachings were followed so slavishly that his assertion ... that the earth was flat and ' resembles a wheel ' long retained a hold on many in medieval Europe, even if a handful of scholars and learned monks knew otherwise ".

" The later medieval historian William of Malmesbury, who hated the style, says of him

When Christ says to turn the other cheek, Tolstoy asserts that he means simply that and rejects the interpretations of Roman and medieval scholars who attempted to limit its scope, writing:

The medieval historian Orderic Vitalis, has a different version of this story, he says that Tostig travelled to Normandy to enlist the help of William, Duke of Normandy.

The Welsh critic Bobi Jones says in the introduction to this anthology, " Nicholas Williams, the well-known scholar, is also the T. Gwynn Jones of Cornwall -- polished, classical, rather conservative, soundly rooted in medieval romanticism.

Rhys tried and discarded many ideas before recalling a quotation from the medieval play Everyman in which the character of Knowledge says to Everyman:

There is also a medieval Hungarian legend that says the Huns, as well as the Magyars, are descended from twin brothers named Hunor and Magor respectively, who lived by the sea of Azov in the years after the flood, and took wives from the Alans.

Among medieval Kabbalists it became known as Sefer HaBahir, taken from its opening comment, " One verse says: ' And now men see not the light which is bright ( bahir ) in the skies '" ( Job 37: 21 ).

In Monção, the legend says, she lives in rio Minho ; in Redondela she lives in the Ria of Vigo The dragon shared the same name that was given in Portuguese and Spanish to the Cog, and although used mainly for trade it was also a war vessel common in medieval warfare and piracy raids to coastal villages.

A medieval tract called Cóir Anmann (" The Fitness of Names ") says that Géde Ollgothach was another name for Érimón.

" One medieval French source says that the stone " is pierced through the middle, and is round, about as large and heavy as a medium sized egg, glassy in appearance, and is to be found in the fields.

Nachmanadies, an important Spanish-Jewish medieval commentator says, like Rashi, that the prefix of the letter ב in word breishis cannot be understood to mean " in " as in the beginning, which would mean the order of creation.

The medieval chronicler Eadmer, Anselm's biographer and a Canterbury partisan, says that Anselm was consecrated as the primate.

Another explanation says the name ' Harbledown ' is more likely to be the medieval village of ' Bobbe-up-and-doun ', which is where Chaucer and his pilgrims rested on the way to Canterbury.