See also:AIMOIN (c. 96o-c. ioro)
, See also:French chronicler, was See also:born at Villefranche de Longchapt about 96o, and in See also:early See also:life entered the monastery of See also:Fleury, where he became a See also:- MONK (O.Eng. munuc; this with the Teutonic forms, e.g. Du. monnik, Ger. Witch, and the Romanic, e.g. Fr. moine, Ital. monacho and Span. monje, are from the Lat. monachus, adaptedfrom Gr. µovaXos, one living alone, a solitary; Own, alone)
- MONK (or MONCK), GEORGE
- MONK, JAMES HENRY (1784-1856)
- MONK, MARIA (c. 1817—1850)
monk and passed the greater See also:part of his life
.
His See also:chief See also:work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri V. de gestis Francorum, which deals with the See also:history of the See also:Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the See also:middle of the 12th See also:century
.
It was much in See also:vogue during the middle ages, but its See also:historical value is now regarded as slight
.
It has been edited by G
.
See also:Waitz and published in the Monumenta Germaniae historica : Scriptores, See also:Band See also:xxvi
.
(See also:Hanover and See also:Berlin, 1826-1892)
.
He also wrote a Vita Abbonis, abbatis Floriacensis, the last of a See also:series of lives of the abbots of Fleury, all of which, except the life of Abbo, have been lost
.
This has been published by J
.
See also:Mabillon in the Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti (See also:Paris, 1668-1701)
.
See also:Aimoin's third work was the See also:composition of books ii. and iii. of the Miracula Sancti Benedicti, the first See also:book of which was written by another monk of Fleury named Adrevald
.
This also appears in the Acta sanctorum ordinis sancti Benedicti
.
Aimoin, who died about xoxo, must be distinguished from Aimoin, a monk of St Germain-See also:des-Pros, who wrote De miraculis sancti Germani,and a fragment De Normanorum gestis circa Parisiacam urbem et de divina in eos ultione tempore Caroli See also:calvi
.
Both of these are published in the Historiae Francorum Scriptores, Tome ii
.
(Paris, 1639-1649)
.
See Histoire litteraire de la See also:France, tome vii
.
(Paris, 1865—1869)
.
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