The World of Orderic Vitalis: Norman Monks and Norman Knights

by Marjorie Chibnall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0851156215
• ISBN13: 9780851156217
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"