The ''Crónicas anónimas de Sahagún'' are two short

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s composed by the monks of

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two centuries apart. They survive only in sixteenth-century

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translations. The first is a catalogue of the excesses of the middle and

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of Sahagún between the years 1109 and 1117. Perhaps it was designed to be presented at the Council of Burgos in the latter year. If an early-twelfth-century provenance is correct then it must have originally been written in

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. It is a useful source of detail for the early reign of

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, since the monastery at Sahagún was the most important in her realms. The second chronicle, written in the fourteenth century, may have been either originally Latin or originally Spanish. It is generally of little use to the historian.

Editions

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, ed. 1987. ''Crónicas Anónimas de Sahagún''. Textos Medievales, 75. Zaragoza: Anubar Ediciones. * Julio Puyol y Alonso, ed. 1920. "Las crónicas anónimas de Sahagún." ''Boletín de la Real Academia de la Historia'', 76''
7–26
and 77''

References

*Reilly, Bernard F. 1982

Princeton: Princeton University Press. *Reilly, Bernard F. 1988

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