Orderic vitalis : life, works and interpretations / edited by Charles C. Rozier, Daniel Roach, Giles E.M. Gasper & Elisabeth Van Houts.

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English
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  • Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, [2016]
  • ©2016
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xiv, 416 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24 cm

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    The Gesta Normannorum ducum and Historia ecclesiastica of Orderic Vitalis are widely regarded as landmarks in the development of European historical writing and, as such, are essential sources of medieval history for students and scholars alike. The essays here consider Orderic's life and works, presenting new research on existing topics within Orderic studies and opening up new directions for future analysis and debate. They offer fresh interpretations from across the disciplines of medieval manuscript studies, English-language studies, archaeology, theology, and cultural memory studies; they also revisit established readings.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-406) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: interpreting Orderic Vitalis / Daniel Roasch and Charles C. Rozier
    • Orderic and his father, Odelerius / Elisabeth van Houts
    • Following the Master's lead: the script of of Orderic Vitalis and the discovery of a new manuscript (Rouen, BM, 540) / Jenny Weston
    • Orderic Vitalis as librarian and cantor of Saint-Évroul / Charles C. Rozier
    • Saint-Évroul and southern Italy in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica / Daniel Roach
    • Orderic and English / Mark Faulkner
    • Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a writing technique between history and poetry / Vincent Debiais and Estelle Ingrand-Varenne
    • Reading Orderic with Charters in mind / Thomas Roche
    • Orderic Vitalis and the cult of saints / Véronique Gazeau
    • Orderic's secular rulers and representations of personality and power in the Historia ecclesiastica / William M. Aird
    • Worldly woe and heavenly joy: the tone of the Historia ecclesiastica / Emily Albu
    • Orderic Vitalis, historical writing and a theology of reckoning / Giles E. M. Gasper
    • Jesus Christ, a protagonist of Anglo-Norman history? History and theology in Orderic Vitalis's Historia ecclesiastica / Elisabeth Mégier
    • 'Studiosi abdita investigant': Orderic Vitalis and the mystical morals of history / Sigbjørn Olsen Sønnesyn
    • Meanders, loops, and dead ends: literary form and the common life in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica / Thomas O'Donnell
    • Orderic and the Tironensians / Kathleen Thompson
    • 'One single letter remained in excess of all his sins...': Orderic Vitalis and cultural memory / Benjamin Pohl
    • The reception of Orderic Vitalis in the later Middle Ages / James G. Clark
    • Appendix I: Archaeological investigations at the Abbey of Saint-Évroult-Notre-Dame-des-Bois / Anne-Sophie Vigot
    • Appendix 2: Descriptive catalogue of manuscripts featuring the hand of Orderic Vitalis / Jenny Watson and Charles C. Rozier.
    ISBN
    • 1783271256
    • 9781783271252
    LCCN
    2017286010
    OCLC
    944380603
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