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An intelligent, well-informed and important piece of work... Well-articulated and clearly and fluently written... a particularly worthy addition to the growing literature on William and on twelfth-century historiography.' Rod Thomson, Professor of Medieval History and Senior Research Fellow, School of History & Classics, University of Tasmania. William of Malmesbury, arguably the greatest English historian of the twelfth century, repeatedly emphasises that the primary purpose of all literary and intellectual activities is to provide moral instruction for the reader, the most famous of his statements to this effect being found in his monumental work Gesta Regum Anglorum, where he categorises history as a sub-discipline of ethics. However, modern studies have chosen to focus on other aspects of William's oeuvre and tended to dismiss such claims as perfunctory nods to a pious commonplace. This book differs from recent orthodoxy by being based on the proposition that medieval professions of the moral aims of historiography are in fact genuine. It seeks to read William's celebrated historical works in the light of his devotional and didactic texts, and in the context of the religous, intellectual and literary traditions to which he expressed his allegiance. He also demonstrates how William's conception of ethics forms a constitutive element of his historical output. The resulting image of William shows a committed monk and man of his time, placing his extraordinary learning at the service of his culture, his society and his faith. Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn is post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

History --- Historiography --- Ethics --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Historical criticism --- Authorship --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Criticism --- William, --- Guillermo, --- Gulielmus, --- Malmesbury, William of, --- Wilhelmus, --- Willelmus, --- William of Malmesbury, --- Historians --- Great Britain --- Historiography. --- Historians - Great Britain --- History - Moral and ethical aspects --- William, - of Malmesbury, - approximately 1090-1143 --- Great Britain - History - Norman period, 1066-1154 - Historiography --- Ethics. --- History. --- Moral Instruction. --- Twelfth Century. --- William of Malmesbury.

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Civilization, Medieval --- Civilisation médiévale --- Scandinavia --- Scandinavie --- History --- Histoire

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"In the wake of religious conversion and the establishment of more stable political systems, the outskirts of Latin Christendom produced historical narratives providing their present identities with a foundational past. The essays collected in this volume all seek to illuminate the emergence of a written historical culture in Denmark from the early twelfth century onwards by situating this historical culture in a wider geographical, chronological, and cultural context. The essays in this volume aim to gain insight into Danish historical narratives written in Latin in the long twelfth century. In the wake of religious conversion and the establishment of more stable political systems, the outskirts of Latin Christendom produced historical narratives providing their present identities with a foundational past. The essays gathered here all seek to illuminate the emergence of a written historical culture in Denmark from the early twelfth century onwards by situating this historical culture in a wider geographical, chronological, and cultural context. 0The period from c.1050 to 1225 saw the emergence of historical narratives about Danish affairs, a development mirroring both the rapid growth of historical writing in the Latin West in this period and the consolidation of Denmark as a Christian kingdom on the model of the great western monarchies. This volume as a whole aims to gain insight into Danish historical narratives written in Latin in the long twelfth century, both by drawing on the theoretical and methodological advances gained through increasing general scholarly interest in medieval historiography over the last decades, and by placing these texts in a larger cultural and intellectual context through comparisons with historical narratives from other areas, particularly England, France, and Germany. The sixteen essays combined in this volume thus range from detailed formal analyses to comparative studies of wider trends in the historiographical developments of the high Middle Ages.

Denmark --- Scandinavia --- Intellectual life --- Historiography --- History --- Scandinavie --- Moyen Age --- Denmark - Intellectual life - Historiography --- Scandinavia - Intellectual life - Historiography --- Denmark - History - To 1241 - Historiography --- Scandinavia - History - To 1397 - Historiography

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Philosophy, Medieval. --- Science, Medieval. --- Philosophy, Medieval --- Science, Medieval --- Science --- Learning and scholarship --- Arts --- Sound (Philosophy) --- Philosophy. --- History --- Grosseteste, Robert,