MDT Ep. 108: Concerning the End of the Interdict and a Vexatious Prophet

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We continue from our last episode into the years 1212-1214 in the Melrose Chronicle, where we come to the end of the interdict, and perhaps the prophesized end of King John’s true sovereignty. Along the way, we also cover some of the more common ecclesiastical offices and check the accuracy of the chronicle’s battlefield accounting.

Today’s Texts:

• The Chronicle of Melrose. Edited and translated by Joseph Stevenson, The Church Historians of England, vol. 4, part 1, Seeley’s, 1856, pp. 79-242. Google Books.
• Ranulf Higden. Polychronicon. Vol. 8. Edited by Joseph Rawson Lumby, translated by John Trevisa, Longman and Co., 1882. Google Books.
• Roger of Wendover. Flowers of History. Vol. 2. Translated by J.A. Giles, Henry G. Bohn, 1849. Google Books.

References:

• Chronica de Mailros. Edited by Joseph Stevenson, Typis Societatis Edinburgensis, 1835. Google Books.
• Cybulskie, Danièle. “When England Was under Interdict.” Medievalists.net, Jan. 2020, https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/when-england-was-under-interdict

Image: Detail of the prophet Nathan admonishing King David from BL Royal MS. 2 B VII f.58 (“The Queen Mary Psalter”)