Norman Anonymous

The Norman Anonymous (sometimes Anonymous of Rouen or Anonymous of York) is the name given to the author of a collection of treatises, the Tractatus Eboracenses, dealing with the relationship between kings and the Catholic Church, written c. 1100. The author, whose identity remains a mystery, offered some of the most strongly worded defences of royal authority and even superiority to the Catholic Church ever uttered in the medieval West. Surviving in just a single manuscript, the text is the only contribution made by the Anglo-Norman realm to the Investiture Controversy.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Dominium mundi
• A Dispute Between a Priest and a Knight
• Proverbia Grecorum

References

Further reading

• The Norman Anonymous is available in a facsimile edition, Der Codex 415 des Corpus Christi College Cambridge : Facs.-Ausg. d. Textüberlieferung d. Normannischen Anonymus ed. Karl Pellens (1977)
• Sections are available in English translation in English Historical Documents II, ed. Douglas, pp. 725–8.
• George Huntston Williams, The Norman Anonymous of 1100 AD: Towards the Identification and Evaluation of the so-called Anonymous of York, Harvard Theological Studies, xvii (1951)
• K. Pellens, 'The tracts of the Norman Anonymous: Corpus Christi College Cambridge Ms. 415',. Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society (1965)
• The text is edited and printed in Norman Anonymous, and Corpus Christi College (University of Cambridge). Library. Die Texte Des Normannischen Anonymus. Edited by Karl Pellens, Steiner, 1966.

External links

• "Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 415: The Norman Anonymous". parker.stanford.edu. Parker Library on the Web. Retrieved 18 August 2022. (Tractatus Eboracensis online)
• A digital edition of the text, including facsimiles

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