Eadmer's Account Of Queen Edith Matilda

“Eadmer’s Account of Queen Edith-Matilda” was a part of collected document from Medieval England 1500-1000: A Reader edited by Emilie Amt. Her document was edited from Edmer’s History of Recent Event in England: Historia Novorum in Anglia. This book was published by Geoffrey Bonsanquet, who translated Eadmer’s book from Latin to English. This text describes Queen Edith-Matilda’s trial. It is our job as a historian to analysis the document to understand conception of history. Too understand and analyze document, we must understand the author and historical era. Whether the story was true or false, Eadmer did not position himself to take a side, but recorded Queen Edith Matilda’s statement as it was told. As I said in introductory paragraph, “Eadmer’s Account of Queen Edith Matilda” the original manuscript came from the 11th century. I have researched Eadmer to understand depth of his document and era at the time. Eadmer (Edmer) of Canterbury was born in 1066 CE from Anglo-Saxon family. He was a monk as well as a historian in the Benedictine monastery of Christ Church, Canterbury. Eadmer had close relationship with Archbishop Anselm, and came to record trial of …show more content…
He stated “…as… I have described… being myself present heard and saw it all… described it without inclining to either side, simply setting out the girl’s story without asserting whether it was true or not…”. Record showed that Eadmer recorded as what modern ideal historian should record a historical document. Also he has separated what was fact and what people thought was fact, like many people believe that Queen Edith Matilda was dedicated by God by her parent (they also believed she was a nun), but he stated that the only fact he known was that she was living with nuns in the nunnery. Since he recorded with accuracy of what he heard and saw, we could essentially rely on his text for the primary