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'Robert' of Wendover and St Albans Cathedral

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Jun 01, 2012
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I went to St Alban's today and saw the cathedral for the first time. Apart from the martyr saint Alban whose shrine has been there for more than 1500 years, the cathedral and the Benedictine abbey that went with it are also famous for the chroniclers that wrote history in the high middle ages. Roger of Wendover and Matthew Paris are the two great figure…

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