William of Malmesbury (1080–1143)

Author of The Deeds of the English Kings

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Includes the names: William of Malmsbury, of Malmesbury William, William of Malmsbury,, William Of Malmesbury Malmesbury

Image credit: Stained glass window showing William of malmesbury, installed in Malmesbury Abbey in 1928 in memory of Rev. Canon C. D. H. McMillan, Vicar of Malmesbury from 1907 to 1919. Taken by Adrian Pingstone in February 2005 and released to the public domain.

Works by William of Malmesbury

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The Deeds of the English Kings (1125) 136 copies, 2 reviews

The Deeds of the Bishops of England (Gesta Pontificum Anglorum) by William of Malmesbury (Ecclesiastical History/Religion) (1989) 33 copies

Kings Before the Norman Conquest (1989) 18 copies

William of Malmesbury: Gesta Regum Anglorum = The History of the English Kings. Volume 1 (1998) 12 copies

William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella = The Contemporary History (1998) 6 copies

De gestis regum anglorum libri quinque: Historiae novellae libri tres (Cambridge Library Collection - Rolls) (Volume 2) (2012) 5 copies

The Historia novella (1955) 5 copies

A History of the Norman Kings (1066-1125): with "Historia Novella" (2000) 4 copies

Contemporary Chronicles of the Middle Ages (1988) 4 copies

William of Malmesbury: Saints' Lives (2002) 4 copies

Polyhistor : A Critical Edition (1982) 3 copies

The antiquities of Glastonbury (1992) 3 copies

The Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary: An English Translation (2017) 2 copies

The Early History of Glastonbury: De Antiquitate Glastonie (1981) 2 copies

Gesta Regum. Le gesta dei re degli Angli. (1992) 2 copies

The Vita Wulfstani of William of Malmesbury : to which are added the extant abridgments of this work and the miracles and translation of St. Wulfstan (1928) 2 copies

Rerum Anglicarum scriptores post Bedam praecipui, ex vetustissimis codicibus manuscriptis nunc primum in lucem editi. : Willielmi monachi Malmesburiensis De gestis regum Anglorum… 1 copy

Gesta pontificum Anglorum. English = The deeds of the Bishops of England (Gesta Pontificum Anglorum) / William of Malmesbury ; tr. by David Preest 1 copy

William of Malmesbury's Life of St. Wulstan : bishop of Worcester 1 copy

Willelmi Malmesbiriensis Monachi Gesta Regum Anglorum, Atque Historia Novella, Vol. 1: Ad Fidem Codicum Manuscriptorum Recensuit Thomas Duffus Hardy (Classic Reprint) (2017) 1 copy

Miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Boydell Medieval Texts) by William of Malmesbury (2015-11-19) 1 copy

William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England (2025) 1 copy

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Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition] (2000) — Contributor — 1,033 copies, 9 reviews

St Frideswide: Patron of Oxford (1988) — Contributor — 24 copies

Galaxy (1970) — Contributor — 3 copies

The King's Story Book — Contributor — 1 copy

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