The Written World: Past and Place in the Work of Orderic Vitalis

by Amanda Jane Hingst (Author), Amanda Jane Hingst (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $49.08

  Explores Orderic's manipulation of the classical geographical tradition. This book draws on the blend of intellectual intimacy and historiographical breadth in Orderic's writings to investigate the ways in which high medieval historians understood geographical space to be a temporally meaningful framework for human affairs.