Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations

First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period.

List of contents

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

Summary

First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period.

Product details

• Authors: Giles E.m. Gasp Elisabeth Van H, Giles E.M. Gasper Elizabeth van Houts, Giles E.m. Gasp Houts, Daniel Roach, Charles C. Rozier, Anne-sophie Vigot
• Assisted by: Giles E. M. Elisabeth Van Houts (Editor), Giles E. M. Gasper Elisabeth van Houts (Editor), Giles E.M. Gasper Elisabeth van Houts (Editor), Giles E. M. Elizabeth van Houts (Editor), Giles E M Gasper (Editor), Giles E.M. (Author) Gasper (Editor), Elisabeth M C van Houts (Editor), Elisabeth M. C. van Houts (Editor), Elisabeth Van Houts (Editor), Giles E. M. Gasper Elisabeth van Houts (Editor), Giles E.M. Gasper Elisabeth van Houts (Editor), Giles E.M. Gasper Elizabeth van Houts (Editor), Daniel Roach (Editor), Charles C Rozier (Editor), Charles C. Rozier (Editor), Elisabeth van Houts (Editor), Professor Elisabeth M C van Houts (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781783271252
• ISBN: 978-1-78327-125-2
• No. of pages: 430
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 875 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity