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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"William of Malmesbury"”.

  1. FORGETTING THE WEAKNESS OF HER SEX AND A WOMAN'S SOFTNESS':HISTORIANS OF THE ANGLO-NORMAN WORLD AND THEIR FEMALE SUBJECT'

    The number of historians who wrote during the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries creates the unusual problem of too many sources. The sheer number of interesting and powerful women does the same. In order to narrow the topic of the presentation of women in texts from this period, I have …

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  2. ‘Holyest Erth of England?’ Glastonbury Abbey: Saints, Sanctity and Pilgrimage

    … period: is that its abbey was a great centre of pilgrimage in England, along with Canterbury and Walsingham. Research concerning aspects of the abbey’s history and pilgrimage status is relatively scarce for such a venerable abbey, and this is because of the perceived unreliability of the …

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  3. Vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215

    … concerns the narrative and theological role of divine vengeance and saintly cursing in the saints’ Lives of England and Ireland, c. 1060-1215. The dissertation considers four case studies of primary material: the hagiographical and historical writings of the English Benedictines (Goscelin of

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  4. Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England

    … English historians – Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had identified a schema that could determine who and what was culpable for engendering events that had been unexpected or …

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