Landulf of Milan

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.[1] He is called Landulf Senior to distinguish him from the unrelated chronicler of Milan Landulf Junior.[2]

He was a married priest[3] 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.[4]

His chronicle begins in 374 and concludes in 1083. There is a complete Italian translation by Alessandro Visconti.

Notes
  1. Chris Wickham, Lawyers Time p. 62, in Studies in Medieval History Presented to R. H. C. Davis (1985).
  2. Christopher Kleinhenz, Medieval Italy: An Encyclopedia (2004), p. 216.
  3. Constance H. Berman, Medieval Religion: New Approaches (2005) p. 145.
  4. Richard William Southern, Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe I (1995), p. 268.
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