William of Malmesbury as Historian and Man of Letters

As a historian and man of learning, William of Malmesbury has over the last century drawn the most diverse reactions from those scholars whose work has brought them into contact with him. On the one hand, praise has been lavished on his wide reading, critical acumen and historical judgement; on the odier, his credulity, carelessness, wilful mishandling of evidence and meandering irrelevance have been stigmatised. One group of scholars sees him as head and shoulders above, and in advance of his time, a ‘modern’ writer; others see him as the creature of his epoch and immediate environment in a pejorative sense. Yet it would surely be true to say that no-one since or apart from William Stubbs has attained such a command of William's output as to be in a position to make an overall assessment of it. Even Stubbs did not claim to be attempting this and, in any case, he was unacquainted with several of William's works, and misattributed others

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• William of Malmesbury's Carolingian sources

  Rodney M Thomson, RODNEY THOMSON•Journal of Medieval History•1981

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• Identifiable books from the pre-Conquest library of Malmesbury Abbey

  Open Access•Rodney M Thomson, RODNEY THOMSON•Anglo-Saxon England•1981

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• The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries

  Open Access•R R Bolgar•Classical Heritage and Its…•1973

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• The Discovery of the Individual, 1050-1200

  M R Powicke, Colin Morris•The American Historical Review•1975

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• Presidential Address

  Open Access•R W Southern, Richard Southern•Transactions of the Royal…•1973

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• Presidential Address

  Open Access•R W Southern, Richard Southern•Transactions of the Royal…•1970

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• Stephen's Shaftesbury Charter

  Robert B Patterson•Speculum•1968

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• William of Malmesbury's Life and Works

  Open Access•Dom Hugh Farmer•The Journal of Ecclesiastical…•1962

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• The Canterbury Forgeries

  Open Access•R W Southern, Richard Southern•The English Historical Review•1958

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• William of Malmesbury's Handwriting

  NEIL R KER•The English Historical Review•1944

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• The Literary Form of William of Malmesbury's ‘Gesta Regum’

  MARIE SCHÜTT•The English Historical Review•1931

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• The Classical Heritage and Its Beneficiaries

  William H Stahl, R R Bolgar•The Classical Weekly•1955

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• The Medieval Tradition of Seneca's Letters

  Charles S Rayment, L D Reynolds•The Classical World•1967

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• Clavis Patrum Latinorum

  Michiel Van Den Hout•Vigiliae Christianae•1952

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• The Early Charters of Wessex

  H R Loyn, H P R Finberg•The Economic History Review•1965

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• St. Anselm and His Biographer

  Richard Luman, R W Southern•Church History•1964

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