Also known as:
French: Adam de Murimuth;
Latin: Adamus Murimuthensis
ADAM OF MURIMUTH. - English historiographer, b. in 1274 or 1275, d. in 1347. He took his degree in law at Oxford and around 1312 became one of the rectors of that university. Numerous and important offices were entrusted to him, not only by the university but also by the archbishop of Canterbury and by the king himself. In 1321 he was appointed vicar general of the bishop of London and in 1325 he obtained a prebend in the church of St. Paul. He wrote the Chronicon of his time, which covers events from the year 1303 to the year 1347.
Bibliography2 worksA. Fabricius, Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae aetatis, I, Florence 1858; C. L. Kingsford, s. v. Murimuth, A., in Dictionary of National
BIBL.: A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca latina mediae et infimae aetatis, I, Florence 1858; C. L. Kingsford, s. v. Murimuth, A., in Dictionary of National Biography, XXXIX, London 1894, pp. 321-33.
Santovito, Emma. “Adamo di Murimuth.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 282. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-di-murimuth.
MLA
Santovito, Emma. “Adamo di Murimuth.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 282. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-di-murimuth.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_adamo_di_murimuth,
author = {Santovito, Emma},
title = {Adamo di Murimuth},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {282},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/adamo-di-murimuth}
}
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