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Historia Novella: The Contemporary History (Oxford Medieval Texts)
Historia Novella The Contemporary History - Oxford Medieval Texts Author:William, William of Malmesbury The Historia Novella is the key source for the succession dispute between King Stephen and the Empress Matilda which brought England to civil war in the twelfth century. Edmund King has provided a major new edition, with revised translation, of the most important eyewitness account of the `anarchy' of King Stephen's reign.