The Dean of Westminster, J. Armitage Robinson (1862 1936), was responsible for the publication of several works about the history of the abbey (his Manuscripts of Westminster Abbey and Gilbert Crispin, Abbot of Westminster are also reissued in this series). This edition of a manuscript history in Latin, written by the monk John Flete (c. 1420 1465) was published in 1909. Robinson's introduction discusses the history of the text, the manuscript sources, the nature of the content (which contains Fleet's transcriptions of charters and other documents) and the reliability of Flete's chronology....
The Dean of Westminster, J. Armitage Robinson (1862 1936), was responsible for the publication of several works about the history of the abbey (his Ma...
