लेखक: R. M. Thomson

William was a historian, biblical commentator, biographer and classicist; his intellectual achievement is studied here. William of Malmesbury (c.1090-c.1143) was England’s greatest historian after Be …

A fresh look at William of Malmesbury which not only demonstrates his real greatness as a historian and his European vision, but also the breadth of his learning across a number of other disciplines. …

Examinations of the culture – artistic, material, musical – of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England’s abbeys and priories …

The famous letters of Bernard of Clairvaux attacking the philosopher Peter Abelard and a vituperative response to them are presented together for the first time. The late eleventh and twelfth centuri …

The first book-length study of the famous pre-1600 library at Corpus Christi College, one of the few college libraries to survive in its original form and with many of its original books in contempor …