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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824494903321

Autore

Hingst Amanda Jane <1976->

Titolo

The written world [[electronic resource] ] : past and place in the work of Orderic Vitalis / / Amanda Jane Hingst

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Notre Dame, Ind., : University of Notre Dame Press, c2009

ISBN

0-268-08159-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

270.4

Soggetti

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Religion and geography

Crusades

Normans

Normandy (France) History To 1515

Great Britain History To 1485

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-259) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.