`A wise, learned, gracefully written account of the Anglo-Norman world and its most remarkable chronicler.' SPECULUM Orderic Vitalis, born near Shrewsbury in 10
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
Wide-ranging studies offer an in-depth analysis of castle-building 11th - 12th centuries and place castles within their broader social and political context. Th