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in 1009, author of a Chronicle of Germany from 876 to 1018 ; Raoul Glaber, 

 monk of Cluny, whose Chronicle, extending from 900 to 1046, is one of the most 

 interesting produced during the Middle Ages ; and Aimoin, of Villefranche 

 in Perigord (died in 1008), who had a well-deserved reputation in the history 

 school of the Benedictines at Fleury-sur-Loire, and who spent part of his life 

 in composing, after documents preserved in that celebrated ahhey, a History 

 of the Merovingian kings, which he himself hrought down to the reign of 

 Clovis, and which his successors, also Benedictine monks, continued to the 



Fig. 360. Coronation of the Great Khan, First King of Tartary. Miniature from the " Flear 

 dcs Histoires de la Terre d'Orient," compiled by Brother Haycon or Hayton (Hethoum), Lord 

 of Cort, Cousin-German of the King of Armenia. Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. In 

 the Library of M. Amhroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. 



year 654. This is a well-arranged history, and one in which the Chronicles 

 have heen fused with a view to logical sequence. Thegan, Archbishop of 

 Treves, composed, much upon the same plan, a Life of Louis the Debonnaire ; 

 and Helgaud, a monk at Fleury-sur-Loire, an abridged Life of King Robert. 

 It was not till the close of the twelfth century that the vulgar tongue 

 passed from popular poetry into history, and while it was in its first hesitating 



