Orderic Vitalis – Life, Works and Interpretations

Introduction: Interpreting Orderic Vitalis - Charles C. Rozier and Daniel Roach Orderic and His Father Odelerius - Elisabeth M C van Houts Following the Master's Lead: The Script of Orderic Vitalis & the Discovery of a New Manuscript (Rouen, BM, 540) - Jenny Weston Orderic as Librarian and Cantor of Saint-Évroul - Charles C. Rozier Orderic and English - Mark Faulkner Saint-Évroul and Southern Italy in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica - Daniel Roach Reading Orderic Vitalis with Charters in Mind - Thomas Roche Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a Writing Technique Between History and Poetry - Vincent Debias Inscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a Writing Technique Between History and Poetry - Estelle Ingrand-Varenne Orderic Vitalis and the Cult of Saints - Véronique Gazeau Orderic's Secular Rulers and Representations of Personality and Power in the Historia ecclesiastica - William M. Aird Worldly Woe and Heavenly Joy: The Tone of the Historia ecclesiastica - Emily Albu Jesus Christ, a Protagonist of Anglo-Norman History? History and Theology in Orderic Vitalis' Historia ecclesiastica - Elisabeth Megier Orderic Vitalis, Historical Writing and a Theology of Reckoning - Giles E.M. Gasper Studiosi abdita investigant: Orderic Vitalis and The Mystical Morals of History - Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn Meanders, Loops, and Dead Ends: Literary Form and the Common Life in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica - Thomas O'Donnell Orderic and the Tironensians - Kathleen Thompson 'One single letter remained in excess of all his sins.' Orderic Vitalis and Cultural Memory - Benjamin Pohl The Reception of Orderic Vitalis in the Later Middle Ages - James G. Clark New Archaeological Investigations at the Abbey of Saint-Évroul-nôtre-Dame-des-bois - Anne-Sophie Vigot Appendix: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis - Jenny Weston Appendix: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis - Charles C. Rozier Bibliography Index of Manuscripts Cited