Orderic Vitalis: Life, Works and Interpretations

CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Daniel Roach gained his PhD from the University of Exeter. Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Giles E.M. Gasper is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham Daniel Roach gained his PhD from the University of Exeter. CHARLES C. ROZIER is Lecturer in Medieval Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Elisabeth van Houts is Honorary Professor of European Medieval History, University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Emmanuel College. Giles E.M. Gasper is Senior Lecturer in History, University of Durham THOMAS O'DONNELL is Associate Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Fordham University, New York, USA. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on the later Middle Ages and early modern period, most recently The Dissolution of the Monasteries (Yale, 2021)

A strength of the volume is that it is truly and candidly interdisciplinary. The subtitle Interpretations stresses this: the value of the book is as much in the number of different angles on Orderic as it is in the new insights it offers into Orderic himself.

• Introduction: Interpreting Orderic Vitalis - Charles C. Rozier and Daniel RoachOrderic and His Father Odelerius - Elisabeth M C van HoutsFollowing the Master's Lead: The Script of Orderic Vitalis & the Discovery of a New Manuscript (Rouen, BM, 540) - Jenny WestonOrderic as Librarian and Cantor of Saint-Évroul - Charles C. RozierOrderic and English - Mark FaulknerSaint-Évroul and Southern Italy in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica - Daniel RoachReading Orderic Vitalis with Charters in Mind - Thomas RocheInscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a Writing Technique Between History and Poetry - Vincent DebiasInscriptions in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica: a Writing Technique Between History and Poetry - Estelle Ingrand-VarenneOrderic Vitalis and the Cult of Saints - Véronique GazeauOrderic's Secular Rulers and Representations of Personality and Power in the Historia ecclesiastica - William M. AirdWorldly Woe and Heavenly Joy: The Tone of the Historia ecclesiastica - Emily AlbuJesus Christ, a Protagonist of Anglo-Norman History? History and Theology in Orderic Vitalis' Historia ecclesiastica - Elisabeth MegierOrderic Vitalis, Historical Writing and a Theology of Reckoning - Giles E.M. GasperStudiosi abdita investigant: Orderic Vitalis and The Mystical Morals of History - Sigbjorn Olsen SonnesynMeanders, Loops, and Dead Ends: Literary Form and the Common Life in Orderic's Historia ecclesiastica - Thomas O'DonnellOrderic and the Tironensians - Kathleen Thompson'One single letter remained in excess of all his sins.' Orderic Vitalis and Cultural Memory - Benjamin PohlThe Reception of Orderic Vitalis in the Later Middle Ages - James G. ClarkNew Archaeological Investigations at the Abbey of Saint-Évroul-nôtre-Dame-des-bois - Anne-Sophie VigotAppendix: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis - Jenny WestonAppendix: Descriptive Catalogue of Manuscripts Featuring the Hand of Orderic Vitalis - Charles C. RozierBibliographyIndex of Manuscripts Cited