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First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period. 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 forstudents 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. Charles C. Rozier gained hisPhD from the University of Durham; Daniel Roach gained his PhD from the University of Exeter; Giles E.M. Gasper is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham; Elizabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of Medieval European History, University of Cambridge. Contributors: William M. Aird, Emily Albu, James G. Clark, Vincent Debiais, Mark Faulkner, Giles E. M. Gasper, Veronique Gazeau, Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Elisabeth Megier, Thomas O'Donnell, Benjamin Pohl, Daniel Roach, Thomas Roche, Charles C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Kathleen Thompson, Elisabeth van Houts, Anne-Sophie Vigot,Jenny Weston
First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period. 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 forstudents 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. Charles C. Rozier gained hisPhD from the University of Durham; Daniel Roach gained his PhD from the University of Exeter; Giles E.M. Gasper is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham; Elizabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of Medieval European History, University of Cambridge. Contributors: William M. Aird, Emily Albu, James G. Clark, Vincent Debiais, Mark Faulkner, Giles E. M. Gasper, Veronique Gazeau, Estelle Ingrand-Varenne, Elisabeth Megier, Thomas O'Donnell, Benjamin Pohl, Daniel Roach, Thomas Roche, Charles C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Kathleen Thompson, Elisabeth van Houts, Anne-Sophie Vigot,Jenny Weston
Introduction: Interpreting Orderic Vitalis - Charles C. Rozier and
Daniel Roach
Orderic and His Father Odelerius - Elisabeth M C van Houts
Following the Master's Lead: The Script of Orderic Vitalis & the
Discovery of a New Manuscript (Rouen, BM, 540) - Jenny Weston
Orderic as Librarian and Cantor of Saint-Évroul - Charles C.
Rozier
Orderic and English - Mark Faulkner
Saint-Évroul and Southern Italy in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica
- Daniel Roach
Reading Orderic Vitalis with Charters in Mind - Thomas Roche
Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a Writing
Technique Between History and Poetry - Vincent Debias
Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a Writing
Technique Between History and Poetry - Estelle Ingrand-Varenne
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
Jesus Christ, a Protagonist of Anglo-Norman History? History and
Theology in Orderic Vitalis' Historia ecclesiastica - Elisabeth
Megier
Orderic Vitalis, Historical Writing and a Theology of Reckoning -
Giles E.M. Gasper
Studiosi abdita investigant: Orderic Vitalis and The Mystical
Morals of History - Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn
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
New Archaeological Investigations at the Abbey of
Saint-Évroul-nôtre-Dame-des-bois - Anne-Sophie Vigot
Appendix: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand
of Orderic Vitalis - Jenny Weston
Appendix: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand
of Orderic Vitalis - Charles C. Rozier
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts Cited
CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Daniel Roach gained his PhD from the University of Exeter. Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Giles E.M. Gasper is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham Daniel Roach gained his PhD from the University of Exeter. CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Giles E.M. Gasper is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA.
A strength of the volume is that it is truly and candidly
interdisciplinary. The subtitle Interpretations stresses this: the
value of the book is as much in the number of different angles on
Orderic as it is in the new insights it offers into Orderic
himself.
*HISTORY*
[T]his volume offers new perspectives suggesting that a more
interdisciplinary approach to medieval historical texts is
worthwhile, and it will surely benefit any student or scholar of
the period.
*COMITATUS*
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