Research Catalog

Title

William of Malmesbury / R.M. Thomson.

Author

Thomson, Rodney M.

Publication

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2003.

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Details

Description

xiii, 239 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

• "William of Malmesbury (c.1090-c.1143) was England's greatest historian after Bede. Although best known in his own time, as now, for his historical writings (his famous Deeds of the Bishops and Deeds of the Kings of Britain), William was also a biblical commentator, hagiographer and classicist, and acted as his own librarian, bibliographer, scribe and editor of texts. He was probably the best-read of all twelfth-century men of learning.".
• "This is a comprehensive study and interpretation of William's intellectual achievement, looking at the man and his times and his work as man of letters, and considering the earliest books from Malmesbury Abbey library, William's reading, and his 'scriptorium'. Important in its own right, William's achievement is also set in the wider context of Benedictine learning and the writing of history in the twelfth century, and on England's contribution to the 'twelfth-century renaissance'." "In this new edition, the text has been thoroughly revised, and the bibliography updated to reflect new research; there is also a new chapter on William as historian of the First Crusade."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• William, of Malmesbury, approximately 1090-1143
• Glastonbury Abbey > Historiography
• Malmesbury Abbey
• Historiography > Great Britain > History > To 1500
• Historians > Great Britain > Biography
• Great Britain > History > Historiography. > Norman period, 1066-1154
• Great Britain > History > Historiography. > To 1066
• England > Intellectual life > 1066-1485

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

William of Malmesbury and his environment -- William as historian and man of letters -- William's reading -- William's 'Scriptorium' -- The earliest books from the library of Malmesbury Abbey -- William's edition of the Liber Pontificalis -- William's Carolingian sources -- William and the letters of Alcuin -- William and some other western writers on Islam -- William as historian of Crusade -- William and the Noctes Atticae.

ISBN

1843830302 (Paperback : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003007083

OCLC

• 51977874
• SCSB-12673961

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library