Format:
Online-Ressource (256 p)
ISBN:
9780851154510
Content:
This is the first book devoted entirely to William of Malmesbury, England's greatest historian after Bede, and one of the great figures of the 12th century renaissance. Although best known for his historical writings, William was also a biblical commentator, scribe and editor of texts. Here, R.M. Thomson looks at the man, his times and his work as a man of letters
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Description based upon print version of record
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CONTENTS; LIST OF PLATES; PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; ABBREVIATIONS; PART I: CONTEXT, CHARACTER AND ACHIEVEMENT; William of Malmesbury and his Environment; William as Historian and Man of Letters; William's Reading; William's 'Scriptorium'; The Earliest Books from the Library of Malmesbury Abbey; PART II: STUDIES OF THE WRITER AT WORK; William's Edition of the Liber Pontificalis; William's Carolingian Sources; William and the Letters of Alcuin; William and some other Western Writers on Islam; William as Historian of Crusade; William and the Noctes Atticae
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APPENDIX I: THE DATE OF WILLIAM'S BIRTHAPPENDIX II: LIST OF WORKSKNOWN TO WILLIAM AT FIRST HAND; APPENDIX III:CONTENTS AND SIGNIFICANT READINGS OF THE GELLIUS FLORILEGIUM; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS; GENERAL INDEX;
Additional Edition:
9781846151750
Additional Edition:
Print version William of Malmesbury
Language:
English
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