Download or read book Medieval Ghost Stories written by Andrew Joynes and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Medieval Ghost Stories" is a collection of ghostly occurrences from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries; they have been found in monastic chronicles and preaching manuals, in sagas and heroic poetry, and in medieval romances. In a religious age, the tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still make hair stand on end; unfailingly, these stories give a fascinating and moving glimpse into the medieval mind. Look only at the accounts of Richard Rowntree's stillborn child, glimpsed by his father tangled in swaddling clothes on the road to Santiago, or the sly habits of water sprites resting as goblets and golden rings on the surface of the river, just out of reach...
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy written by Ordericus Vitalis and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The World of Orderic Vitalis written by Marjorie Chibnall and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1996 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `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.
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis Volume IV Books VII VIII written by Orderic Vitalis, and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1983-03-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orderic Vitalis written by Charles C. Rozier and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First full-length collection on one of the most significant and influential historians of the medieval period.
Download or read book The Written World written by Amanda Jane Hingst and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Written World draws on Orderic Vitalis's writings to investigate the ways in which high medieval historians understood geographical space to be a temporally meaningful framework for human affairs.
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis Volume III Books V and VI written by Orderic Vitalis, and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1983-03-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 555 der Burgerbibliothek Bern.
Download or read book Gesta Guillelmi written by Guilelmus (de Tocco) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William of Poitiers served William the Conqueror for many years as one of his chaplains. His Gesta Guillelmi is a first-hand account of the momentous events of William's reign, and one of the most important sources for the history of the period. This new edition, with facing-page English translation of the Latin text, provides the first complete English translation, as well as a full historical introduction and detailed notes.
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis Volume II Books III IV written by Orderic Vitalis, and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1983-03-03 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis Volume IV Books VII VIII written by Orderic Vitalis, and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1983-03-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited with a facing-page English translation from the Latin text by: Chibnall, Marjorie;
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis Volume II Books III IV written by Orderic Vitalis, and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1990-11-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis has been called `the greatest of all medieval chronicles'. It is a detailed history of the Norman people and their conquests, full of vivid and penetrating portraits of kings and queens, lords and bishops, and humble villagers. It is important as a unique and authentic picture of feudal society during the emergence of the Anglo-Norman realm. Here Volume II of Marjorie Chibnall's six-volume edition of the Ecclesiastical History is now available for the first time in paperback.
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis Volume II Books III IV written by Orderic Vitalis, and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1990-11-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis has been called `the greatest of all medieval chronicles'. It is a detailed history of the Norman people and their conquests, full of vivid and penetrating portraits of kings and queens, lords and bishops, and humble villagers. It is important as a unique and authentic picture of feudal society during the emergence of the Anglo-Norman realm. Here Volume II of Marjorie Chibnall's six-volume edition of the Ecclesiastical History is now available for the first time in paperback.
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis Volume II Books III IV written by Orderic Vitalis, and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1990-11-29 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis has been called `the greatest of all medieval chronicles'. It is a detailed history of the Norman people and their conquests, full of vivid and penetrating portraits of kings and queens, lords and bishops, and humble villagers. It is important as a unique and authentic picture of feudal society during the emergence of the Anglo-Norman realm. Here Volume II of Marjorie Chibnall's six-volume edition of the Ecclesiastical History is now available for the first time in paperback.
Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis Volume III Books V and VI written by Orderic Vitalis, and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1983-03-03 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 555 der Burgerbibliothek Bern.
Download or read book The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy Tr with notes and the intr of Guizot by T Forester written by Ordericus Vitalis and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis written by Ordericus Vitalis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and translation on opposite pages.
