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The World of Orderic Vitalis - Norman Monks and Norman Knights (Paperback, New Ed)
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The World of Orderic Vitalis - Norman Monks and Norman Knights (Paperback, New Ed)
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`A wise, learned, gracefully written account of the Anglo-Norman
world and its most remarkable chronicler.' SPECULUM 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 theConquest, 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 inchurch
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.
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