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The World of Orderic Vitalis

Norman Monks and Norman Knights

by Marjorie Chibnall

  • Paperback
  • 264 pages
  • Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm

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Orderic Vitalis, born near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent as a child oblate to the Norman abbey of Saint-Evroult, wrote one of the most vivid and important medieval chronicles. His world encompassed Shropshire in the aftermath of the Conquest, Normandy in civil war and at peace, and, briefly, the wider French perspective of the priory of Maule. Saint-Evroult was open to all the cross-currents of a changing society, and Orderic witnessed fundamental changes in church organisation, patterns of aristocratic inheritance, attitudes towards knighthood, and Christian militancy towards non-Christians. This book is concerned with monastic life and culture and its interaction with the life of courts and Norman families. It also describes the life of Orderic himself, and an appendix gives a translation of his own moving account of his life, an epilogue to the 'Historia'. MARJORIE CHIBNALL is a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She has written many booksand articles about the Anglo-Norman world, including an edition of Orderic's 'Ecclesiastical History'.
The World of Orderic Vitalis and The Waltham Chronicle: An Account of the Discovery of Our Holy Cross at Montacute and Its Conveyance to Waltham
The Waltham Chronicle: An Account of the Discovery of Our Holy Cross at Montacute and Its Conveyance to WalthamThe World of Orderic Vitalis

  • Author

    Marjorie Chibnall

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Boydell & Brewer Ltd

  • Published

    March 1996

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    341g

  • Page Count

    264

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780851156217

  • ISBN-10

    0851156215

  • Eden Code

    1196780

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