The World of Orderic Vitalis: Norman Monks and Norman Knights by Marjorie Chibnall

The World of Orderic Vitalis: Norman Monks and Norman Knights

Marjorie Chibnall

264 pages • first pub 1984 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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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 the Conquest, Norman...

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