A Syllabus of Medieval History, 395-1300 #250042

For the proper names the usual form is given except where there is some especial reason for preferring another spelling. There has been no attempt to attain uniformity. It would be impossible without a palaeographic purism which obscures familiar names and events, and certainly has no place in under graduate work. The extracts from the sources are printed here because these particular bits do not seem to fit into any of the existing series.