Comparison with Florence of Worcester
William’s Gesta Regum was first published in 1120, two years after the death of Florence, whose work had doubtless reached him by then and was certainly well known to him before…
William’s character and historical method
William’s temper, as displayed in his works, might form the subject of a curious psychological study, for in many respects it seems to belong to a man of the world of the modern d…
Decline of the English gleeman
The Norman conquest had doomed to gradual extinction a vast growth of unwritten popular verse which for four hundred years had colored the whole social life and thought of England…
Song and the national revival of history
Before the gleeman’s day was quite over, the new school of patriotic historians arose and plunged into the mass of traditional and romantic lore of which he was the depositary as…
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Chapter I introduces William of Malmesbury as a representative lens onto the monastic and intellectual culture of Henry I’s England. The chapter argues that William, though exceptional in genius, flourished within an ordinary monastic setting that was deeply engaged with every r…
William of Malmesbury as an exceptional monastic figure
William of Malmesbury should not be taken as an average representative of monastic culture: he was a man of exceptional genius who would have stood out in any age.…
The monastic community in contact with every rank of society
The community of Malmesbury was in active and constant relations with every rank and class of society throughout the kingdom.…
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