Robert Mannyng
Who is Robert Mannyng
Robert Mannyng (or Robert de Brunne; c. 1275 – c. 1338) was an English chronicler and Gilbertine monk. Mannyng provides a surprising amount of information about himself in his two known works, Handlyng Synne and Mannyng's Chronicle. In these two works, Mannyng tells of his residencies at the Gilbertine houses of Sempringham (near Bourne) and Sixhills, and also at the Gilbertine priory at Cambridge, St Edmund’s.
Upbringing
His name, Robert de Brunne, indicates that he came from the place then known as Brunne (Bourne, Lincolnshire), thirteen kilometres south of Sempringham Priory, the mother house of the Gilbertine Order. Both places lie on the western edge of the Lincolnshire fens. He entered the house in 1288, was trained there and moved to Cambridge, probabl...
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- Chr_gmu: yesterday, chr heard from residential faculty fellow jacqueline burek, whose talk, "remembering the past in medieval britain," guided us through robert mannyng's "story of inglande" and several richly-illustrated medieval manuscripts.
- Relevantquest: “for no man wist who was best
nor in arms doughtiest—
did he ordain the round table
that men tell of many fable.
none sat within, none sat without,
but all ever round about;
none sat first, none sat last,
but peer by peer ever cast…”
—robert mannyng (gilbertine monk, 1275-1338)
- Thaliarchus: revisiting robert mannyng’s story of the hermit and the bear. the bear makes fair cheer (of the sort, adds mannyng, that a bear might make).
- Caitlinrgreen: according to robert mannyng in the 14thc, Æthelbald & offa of mercia were in fact kings of lindissi & even britons...! see
- Somequotesbot: "no thyng ys to man so dereas wommanys love yn gode manere.a gode womman is mannys blys." - robert mannyng
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