A.  Narrative sources



A very thorough collection of English translations of sources dealing with the Normans before, during, and after their settlement in Normandy:  The Normans in Europe. Edited by Elisabeth M. C. van Houts. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.

Two Frankish historians who touch on early Norman issues: Flodoard of Reims. Les Annales de Flodoard. Edited by Philippe Lauer. Collection des textes pour servir à l'étude et à l'enseignement de l'histoire 39. Paris: Picard, 1905. Translation: Flodoard of Reims. The Annals of Flodoard of Reims, 919-966. Translated by Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures 9. Broadview Press, 2004.

Flodoard of Reims. Historia Remensis ecclesiae. Edited by Martina Stratmann. MGH Scriptores 36. Hannover: Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 1998.

Richer of Reims. Histoire de France, 888-995. 2 volumes. Edited and translated by Robert Latouche. Les classiques de l'histoire de France au Moyen Age 12, 17. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1930-1936. New edition: Richer of Reims. Historiae. Edited by Hartmut Hoffmann. MGH Scriptores 38. Hannover: Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 2000.

The Ur-source for Norman historiography: Dudo of Saint-Quentin. De moribus et actis primorum Normanniæ ducum. Edited by Jules Lair. MSAN 23. Caen: F. Le Blan-Hardel, 1865. English: Dudo of Saint-Quentin. History of the Normans. Translated by Eric Christiansen. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1998. A new edition and translation into French is in the works by Pierre Bouet; no further information available.

Dudo's Latin progeny: William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum. 2 volumes. Edited and translated by Elisabeth M. C. van Houts. OMT. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992-1995.

Orderic Vitalis. The Eccelesiastical History. 6 volumes. Edited and translated by Marjorie Chibnall. OMT. Oxford: Clarendon, 1969-1980.

Stephen of Rouen. Le Dragon normand et outres poèmes d'Étienne de Rouen. Edited by Henri Omont. SHNP 18. Rouen: Charles Métérie, 1884.

Dudo's French progeny: Wace. Roman de Rou et des ducs de Normandie. 3 volumes. Edited by A. J. Holden. Paris: Picard, 1970-1973. Now translated: Wace. Roman de Rou. Translated by Gwyn Burgess. Edited by A. J. Holden. Jersey: La Société Jersiaise, 2002.

Benoît de Saint-Maur. Chronique des ducs de Normandie. 4 volumes. Edited by Carin Fahlin. Bibliotheca Ekmaniana Universitatis Regiae Upsaliensis 54 etc. Uppsala: Almqvist and Wikselle, 1951-1979.

Other chronicles: Amato of Montecassino. L'Ystoire de li Normant, et la Chronique de Robert Viscart. Edited by M. Champollion-Figeac. Paris: Jules Renouard, 1835.

"Carmen de fundatione, ruina et restauratione inclyti monasterii Gemmeticensis." Edited by Pierre Bouet. Tabularia « Études» 1 (2001): 33-52.

"Chronicon de Gestis Normannorum in Francia." In Lamberti S. Audomari Canonici Liber Floridus: Codex authographus bibliothecae universitatis Gandavensis, edited by Albert Derolez. Ghent: J. Story-Scientia, 1968.

"Genealogia ducum Normannorum." In Über die Leges Edwardi Confessoris, edited by F. Liebermann, 134-39. Halle: Max Niemeyer, 1986.

Henry of Huntingdon. Historia Anglorum. Edited and translated by Diana Greenway. OMT. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.

John of Marmoutier. "Historia Gaufredi ducis Normannorum et comitis Andegavorum." In Chroniques des comtes d'Anjou et des seigneurs d'Amboise, edited by Louis Halphen and René Poupardin, 172-231. Paris: Picard, 1913.

John of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres. Historia Pontificalis. Edited and translated by Marjorie Chibnall. Nelson Medieval Texts. London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1956.

John of Worcester. The Chronicle of John of Worcester. 3 volumes (2 to date). Edited by R. R. Darlington and P. McGurk and translated by Jennifer Bray and P. McGurk. OMT. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995-.

Robert of Torigny. Chronique de Robert de Torigni, abbé du Mont Saint Michel. Edited by Léopold Delisle. Rouen: A. Le Brument, 1872-1873. Also printed as Chronica. In Chronicles of the Reigns of Stephen, Henry II and Richard I, edited by Richard Howlett. Rolls Series 82.4. London: Longman, 1889.

"The Text of the Fécamp Chronicle in MS Rouen Bib. mun 528 (A 362)." Edited by Mathieu Arnoux. Anglo-Norman Studies 22 (1999): 42-48.

Annals:  Annales de l'abbaye Saint-Pierre de Jumièges: Chronique universelle des origines au XIIe siècle. Edited by Jean Laporte. Rouen: Lecerf, 1954.

"Annales Fontanellenses priores." Edited by Jean Laporte. SHNM 15 (1951): 63-91.

The Annals of St Neots with Vita prima Sancti Neoti. Edited by David Dumville and Michael Lapidge. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition 17. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1985.

Chronicon Rotomagensis, 12:784-786. Recueil des Historiens des Gauls et de la France. Paris: Victor Palmé, 1877.

"Les courtes annales de Bec." In Notices et documents publiés pour la Société de l'histoire de France, edited by Léopold Delisle, 93-97. Paris: Renouard, 1884.

Ex Annalibus Normannicis. Edited by O. Holder-Egger, 488-517. MGH Scriptores 26. Hannover: Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 1883.

Major sources for William the Conqueror: "The Brevis Relatio de Guillelmo nobilissimo comite Normannorum, Written by a Monk of Battle Abbey." In Chronology, Conquest, and Conflict in Medieval England, edited by Elisabeth M. C. van Houts, 1-48. Camden Fifth Series10, Camden Miscellany 34. London: Royal Historical Society, 1997. Reprinted with translation in van Houts. History and Family Traditions in England and the Continent, 1000-1200. Aldershot: Variorum, 1999. Chapter VII.

The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens. 2d ed. Edited and translated by Frank Barlow. OMT. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

William of Poitiers. The Gesta Guillelmi. Edited and translated by R. H. C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall. OMT. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

Norman church chronicles, gesta, etc.: "Acta archiepiscoporum Rotomagensium." In Joannis Abrincensis primum episcopi... opera omnia, edited by J.-P. Migne, cols. 273-80. Patrologia Latina 147. Paris: Garnier Fratres, 1879.

"Carmen de monasterio Gemmeticensi." In Appendix ad sæculum X, edited by J.-P. Migne, cols. 393-98. Patrologia Latina 138. Paris: Garnier Fratres, 1880.

"De statu hujus ecclesiae ab anno 836 ad 1093." In Gallia Christiana 11, edited by Paul Piolin. 2nd ed., Instrumenta, cols. 217-24. Paris: Victor Palmé, 1874. A.k.a. "Historia fundationis Ecclesiae Constantiensis sive Gesta Gaufridi."  Portions dealing with Rollo translated in van Houts, The Normans in Europe, 38-40.

Gesta sanctorum patrum Fontanellensium coenobii (Gesta abbatum Fontanellensium). Edited by F. Lohier and Jean Laporte. SHNP, unnumbered. Rouen: Lestringant, 1936.

Histoire de l'Abbaye de Fécamp en vers français du XIIe siècle. Edited by Arthur Långfors. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae 22.1. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1928.

"Historiae Fiscannensis fragmentum." Edited by A. Poncelet. Analecta Bollandiana 23 (1904): 252-54.

"Libellum de revelatione aedificatione et auctoritate Fiscannensis monasterii." In B. Urbani II pontificis Romani epistolae, diplomatae, sermones, edited by J.-P. Migne, cols. 699-724. Patrologia Latina 151. Paris: Garnier Fratres, 1841. Also edited as "Libellum de revelatione aedificatione et auctoritate Fiscannensis monasterii." In Histoire de l'Abbaye de Fécamp en vers français du XIIe siècle, edited by Arthur Långfors, 12-40. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae 22.1. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 1928. For emendations based on a new manuscript, see Arnoux, Mathieu. "La fortune du Libellus de revelatione, edificatione et auctoritate Fiscannensis monasterii: Note sur la production historiographique d'une abbaye bénédictine normande." Revue d'histoire des textes 21 (1991): 135-58.