John of Glastonbury

John of Glastonbury (fl. c. 1340) was a Benedictine monk[1] and chronicler.[2] His full name may have been John Seen.[3]

In the mid fourteenth century John wrote the Cronica Sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie (Chronicles or Antiquities of the Glastonbury Church) which is a chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey, from when it was founded, up to the period of John's life. The Cronica survives as a full text over seven manuscripts.[4] The Cronica refers to the Arthurian legends several times, and John drew extensively on De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie by William of Malmesbury.[5]

  1. ^ Luxford 2008, p. 48.
  2. ^ Kennedy 2005, p. 49.
  3. ^ Carley, James P.; Townsend, David. Chronicle of Glastonbury Abbey: An Edition, Translation and Study of John of Glastonbury's Cronica sive Antiquitates. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0851158594.
  4. ^ of Glastonbury 1985, p. XI.
  5. ^ Echard 1998, p. 122.