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St Albans Cathedral

Meet the greatest and most outlandish chronicler of the Middle Ages

Self portrait of Matthew Paris from the original manuscript of his Historia Anglorum, held in the B

Hertfordshire Life

Gillian Thornton

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Enter St Albans Cathedral in the 13th century and you would have found one of the most important figures of the age, the outspoken Matthew Paris