Landulf of Milan (, ) was a late eleventh-century historian of

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. His work ''Historiae Mediolanensis'' contains a proportion of pure invention, as well as gross inaccuracies. He is called Landulf Senior to distinguish him from the unrelated chronicler of Milan

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. He was a married priest and opponent of the

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and the local Patarenes. He travelled to France to study: to

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to study with

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in 1107-7, and to

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. Richard William Southern, ''Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe'' I (1995), p. 268. His chronicle begins in 374 and concludes in 1083. There is a complete Italian translation by Alessandro Visconti.

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External links

*Alessandro Visconti, ''La cronaca Milanese di Landolfo seniore sec. XI'' (Milan, 1928) *Details about Landulf's Historia (in German) https://www.geschichtsquellen.de/werk/3258
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