Bücher der Reihe Oxford Medieval Texts

Completes the new edition of "Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People", and is prefaced by a paper characteristic of Professor Wallace-Hadrill on "Bede and Plummer". Other books by J.M. Wallace-Hadrill include "Early Medieval History" and "The Frankish Church".

Orderic's history, written in Normandy between 1114 and 1141, tells of the Normans and the part they played in promoting the interest of the Church and especially monasticism at the time when their secular exploits included the conquest and colonization of England and Sicily.