The meaning of the vetusta ecclesia for the new prestige of Glastonbury Abbey according to William of Malmesbury's De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, course: Die normannische Eroberung Englands (1066), language: English, abstract: To be busy with the history of Glastonbury Abbey, you have to differentiate between the

early history and the time after the Norman conquest. Especially on closer inspection of

the early history a big problem takes place: All traditions like architecture, written and

painted sources have been destroyed by the big fire of 1184. That is why the today known

early history of Glastonbury Abbey is only based on myths and sources that had been

written after the fire.

The most important is the De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie by William of

Malmesbury.