Lupus

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Barensis was the reputed author of the ''Chronicon rerum in regno Neapolitano gestarum'' (also called ''Annales Lupi Protospatharii''), a concise history of the

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from 805 to 1102. He has only been named as the author since the seventeenth century. Lupus, along with two other Bariot chronicles, the ''

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'' and the ''

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'', used some lost ancient annals of Bari up to 1051.

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appears to have used these same annals. Lupus also used the lost annals of

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. Perhaps most unusual to Lupus is his dating method. He began his years in September and so places events of the latter half of a given year in the next year.

References

External links

Lupus Protospatarius Barensis, ''Rerum in Regno Neapolitano Gestarum Breve Chronicon ab Anno Sal. 860 vsque ad 1102.''
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