ABSTRACT
The Chronica Gallica ad annum CCCCLII, or Gallic Chronicle of 452, is an important yet puzzling document. A pessimistic and apparently for the most part firsthand account of religious, political, and military upheaval and disorder not only in Gaul, but throughout the Roman Empire, it was completed probably in Viennensis, perhaps in Valence or Marseille, in the middle of 452 when news arrived that Attila and his Huns were first threatening Italy, and was originally written as a continuation of Jerome's translation and continuation of Eusebius of Caesarea's Chronici canones. The most important innovation of this edition is the correction of the sixteen erroneous regnal years in Mommsen's edition, first noted by Muhlberger in 1983. As he states, Mommsen nowhere gives any explanation for his bizarre placement of the regnal years in seven different places within chronicle. The establishment of the orthography of the edition has presented some difficulties, however, because it is not the policy to regularize orthography.
