Landulf of Milan (Italian: Landolfo di Milano, Latin: Landulfus Mediolanensis) was a late eleventh-century historian of Milan. His work Historiae Mediolanensis contains a proportion of pure invention, as well as gross inaccuracies. He is called Landulf Senior to distinguish him from the unrelated chronicler of Milan Landulf Junior.
He was a married priest and opponent of the Gregorian Reform and the local Patarenes. He travelled to France to study: to Orléans in 1103, to Paris to study with William of Champeaux in 1107-7, and to Laon.
His chronicle begins in 374 and concludes in 1083. There is a complete Italian translation by Alessandro Visconti.
Notes
- Chris Wickham, Lawyers Time p. 62, in Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. H. C. Davis (1985).
- Christopher Kleinhenz, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (2004), p. 216.
- Constance H. Berman, Medieval Religion: New Approaches (2005) p. 145.
- Richard William Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe I (1995), p. 268.
External links
- Alessandro Visconti, La cronaca Milanese di Landolfo seniore sec. XI (Milan, 1928)
- Details about Landulf's Historia (in German) https://www.geschichtsquellen.de/werk/3258
- Edition in the MGH