The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that medieval historian Dorothy Whitelock called the Liber Eliensis "unique among post-Conquest monastic histories"?
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Since I was invited to comment, I'll do so. The general reader would probably find it more interesting if you had a better background section, covering the literary context. I.e. it is a fairly normal "local history" or "cartulary narrative" produced in England in the era after the Norman Conquest. Gransden's background chapter (you can log out of google once you've reach your limit and then read on ... various ways to trick it) and this. Gransden claims it is the longest of these, a claim worth citing.
I think if you decide to expand it more, a separate section for authorship is probably necessary. Authorship isn't really background, but central to these texts. Just expanding the debate, why historians have sometimes believed it was these monks, why they believe it was authored (here at the community's request), and so on. The MS section might benefit from tabulation, and more discussion of the pros and cons of E versus F (which is what you'd expect to read). The article is decent in size, but you can take heart that the sources you are already using give you plenty of room for expansion should you desire it. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 23:13, 1 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Okay, so basically expansion of what's already there, not so much that there are big gaping holes of missing sections (I haven't inadvertantly done the manuscript equivalent of say... leaving out the "coronation" section for a king). That was my main concern. I really did NOT pay much attention to manuscript and literary studies! U of I has Grandsen's works, I'm just waiting on them returning to check them out for myself. Thanks, Deacon. So much easier for someone ELSE to see things than for you to see what's missing in your own work. Ealdgyth - Talk00:25, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
