George,
Are the 'brief chronicles of emperors and the popes' you mention in the
Bernard Gui MS. you used (no.1 of the Bergendal Collection), the same as
Gui's "Flores chronicorum" or "Catalogus pontificum romanorum" (the last
edition of which was extended to and issued in 1331)?
If so, I'd love to consult it. Gui says some interesting things about the
'pueri' of 1212. But in the printed edition (Muratori I recall?) the
editor's way of excerpting Gui, under the title of a different work and not
under Gui's own title, is peculiar and gives rise to doubts. So consulting
the MS. might well be necessary to ascertain if the text I have is correct.
By the way, do you know of a full-scale discussion of Gui as a historian?
I've read the good, recent account of his life in B. Guenee, "Between
Church and State".
Gary Dickson
University of Edinburgh
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