De laude Cestrie ("On the Glory of Chester"[1]), also known as Liber Luciani de laude Cestrie ("The Book of Lucian in Praise of Chester"[2][nb 1]), is a medieval English manuscript in Latin by Lucian of Chester, probably a monk at the Benedictine Abbey of St Werburgh in Chester. Believed to date from the end of the 12th century, it has been described as "the oldest extant piece of Cheshire writing,"[2] and, with its first-hand description of the medieval town of Chester, is one of the earliest examples of prose writing about an English urban centre. It is also notable for the earliest extended description of Chester's county palatine status, which Lucian writes "gives heed ... more to the sword of its prince than to the crown of the king."[4] The original manuscript is held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Excerpts have been published in 1600, 1912 and 2008.
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- ^ Mark Faulkner (2010), "Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195–1656. (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern) by Robert W. Barrett, Jr", The Review of English Studies, 61: 466–68, doi:10.1093/res/hgp068, JSTOR 40783076
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