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The written world : past and place in the work of Orderic Vitalis / Amanda Jane Hingst.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hingst, Amanda Jane, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Church history.
- Religion and geography.
- Crusades.
- Normans.
- Normandy (France)--History--To 1515.
- Normandy (France).
- Great Britain--History--To 1485.
- Great Britain.
- Ordericus Vitalis, 1075-1143?.
- Ordericus Vitalis.
- Ordericus Vitalis, 1075-1143? Historia ecclesiastica.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Written World draws on Orderic Vitalis's writings to investigate the ways in which high medieval historians understood geographical space to be a temporally meaningful framework for human affairs.
- Contents:
- Ouche : the history of a place
- Classical geography and the gens normannorum
- At sea
- Albion : conquest, hegemony, and the English past
- Jerusalem and the ends of the earth
- Haunted landscapes
- Historians, heretics, and the body of Christ.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-259) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780268081591
- 026808159X
- OCLC:
- 694144514
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