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e Latin edition Gesta Roberti Wiscardi, ed.M. Mathieu （Palermo: Istituto siciliano di studi bizantini e neoellenici, 1961）, also available online at http://intratext/IXT/LAT0871/_INDEX.HTM.

11 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles began as the court annals of Alfred the Great in the late ninth century. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, trans. M. Swanton（London: Dent, 1996）.

12 For Orderic’s background see Orderic, Ecclesiastical History, vol. 1, ‘Introduction’.

13 The works that concern us here are Gesta regum Anglorum, ed. and trans.R. A. B. Mynors, R. M. Thomson and M. Winterbottom, 2 vols （Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998） and Gesta pontificum Anglorum, ed. and trans. M. Winterbottom and R. M. Thomson, 2 vols （Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2007）.

14 Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum, ed. and trans. D. Greenway（Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996）.

15 M. Aurell, The Plantagenet Empire, 1154-1224 （Harlow: Longman, 2007）, p. 138; C. Urbanski, Writing History for the King: Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography （Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013）, Ch. 3. Wace’s history is published as A History of the Norman People: Wace’s Roman de Rou, trans. G. Burgess with notes by G. Burgess and E. van Houts （Woodbridge: Boydell, 2004）.