Why read The World of Orderic Vitalis?

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Monastic life, the royal courts and Norman nobility as depicted by Orderic's medieval chronicle.

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1 author picked The World of Orderic Vitalis as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Charity L. Urbanski

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Chibnall was a fantastic writer, and she was the authority on Orderic Vitalis, one of the most important historians of the early twelfth century.

I love this book because Chibnall uses Orderic’s history to explore the world he wrote in, a world in which monks mingled with knights and kings, and she examines the rapid social changes taking place in the early twelfth century. This book is at once an examination of Orderic’s work, a biography of a famous chronicler, and an exploration of Anglo-Norman society in the early twelfth century.

It’s a fantastic place to start if you’ve never…

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