The Waltham Chronicle is an interesting example of a twelfth-century historia fundacionis. Writte...
The debate on the Norman Conquest is still ongoing. Because of the great interest that has always...
Edited with a facing-page English translation from the Latin text by: Chibnall, Marjorie;
The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis has been called the greatest of all medieval chroni...
Orderic Vitalis, born near Shrewsbury in 1075 and sent as a child oblate to the Norman abbey of S...
Monastic life, the royal courts and Norman nobility as depicted by Orderic's medieval chronicle.
Edited with a facing-page English translation from the Latin text by: Chibnall, Marjorie;
This book examines the emergence of the Normans, their characteristics as a group, and their vari...
Bayeux Tapestry; Feudal Society in Orderic Vitalis; Sacre des rois Anglo-Normands et Angevins; De...
This book provides the most comprehensive examination of the Normans available, examining the eme...