Primary source · Monastic chronicle
Peterborough Chronicle (Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, manuscrit E / manuscript E)
Moines de l'abbaye de Peterborough / Monks of Peterborough Abbey — Annal written around 1155 (placed under the year 1137, within the account of Stephen's reign).
Briefly states that the Jews of Norwich allegedly martyred a Christian child. It shows that the story circulated beyond Norwich by the mid-twelfth century, but it is not an independent witness of the events: it relays a story already spread by the Norwich cult.
- Author
- Moines de l'abbaye de Peterborough / Monks of Peterborough Abbey
- Date
- Annal written around 1155 (placed under the year 1137, within the account of Stephen's reign).
- Nature
- Primary source
- Document type
- Monastic chronicle
- Held at
- Bodleian Library, Oxford, MS Laud Misc. 636
- Original language
- Late Old English / early Middle English
- External link
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